Experts reveal digital image of what an Egyptian man looked like almost 35,000 years ago

Experts reveal digital image of what an Egyptian man looked like almost 35,000 years ago

Brazilian experts have used digital imaging to reveal the face of an Egyptian man who lived 35,000 years ago.

Moacir Elias Santos, an archaeologist and Cícero Moraes, a 3D designer used the skeletal remains of a man found at an archaeological site in Egypt to recreate a digital image. The image presents a detailed facial approximation of the skull of Nazlet Khater 2, the 35,000-year-old fossil that was discovered in 1980 in Egypt’s Nile Valley. Anthropological analysis later identified the skeletal remains as being of a man of African ancestry, aged between 17 to 29 years old at the time of his death. The analysis suggests he stood over five feet and three inches approximately.

The team used the process of facial approximation, which helps archaeologists recreate the facial features of a deceased person using skeletal remains.

“A few years ago, we were already working on a series of approximations related to human evolution, with the best-known fossil replicas,” Moacir Santos, archaeologist at the Ciro Flamarion Cardoso Archaeology Museum in Ponta Grossa, Brazil told CNN. “The videos were converted into photos and were used for the elaboration of the photogrammetry of the skull, which shaped the study.” Photogrammetry is the process of extracting