10 examples of how to actually looked historical figures

childhood We know these names and even seemed to imagine how these people looked. Meanwhile, scientists, exploring the remains allegedly belonging to these historical figures, meticulously and carefully recreate the real faces of the legendary figures of the past.

< Website I have found 10 reconstructions, where they both live. And now, looking at the person, you know: the pharaoh is not so glorious, with the grand title hiding weak, sick man, the great Shakespeare somehow like a sad Jakubowicz and Nefertiti - at Angelina Jolie.



Tutanhamon



Pharaoh who ruled Egypt in 1332-1323 years BC. Scientists believe that Tutankhamun suffered from genetic diseases, and malaria, which may have led to his early death: Pharaoh died at age 19.



Nefertiti



In 2003, the mummy KV35YL was identified as Nefertiti - "main wife of" Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten XVIII dynasty. Then there was the reconstruction of its appearance.



Dante Aligeri



The face of the great Italian poet XIII-XIV centuries, Dante Alighieri Italian scientists reconstructed in 2007.



William Shekspir



Reconstruction of the face of William Shakespeare made a death mask of the English poet and playwright.



Apostle Pavel



St. Paul lived in the 5-67 years of our era. In 2009, for the first time in the history of scientific study was conducted sarcophagus located under the altar of the Roman Temple Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls. The remains found there, presumably belonged to Paul.



Holy Nikolay



In Christianity, Nicholas of Myra is revered as a miracle worker and is considered the patron saint of sailors, merchants and children.



Henry IV



Perhaps it looked like Henry IV (Henry of Navarre) - King of France, the leader of the Huguenots, who was killed a Catholic fanatic in 1610. The reconstruction carried out in 2010 by a group of scientists led by Philippe Charlier.



King Richard III



Look king reconstructed the remains discovered in the autumn of 2012 under the car park in Leicester.



Johann Sebastian Bah



The face of the great German composer who lived in the XVIII century, was renovated in 2008, the Scottish anthropologist Caroline Wilkinson.



Nikolai Kopernik



The remains of the medieval creator of the heliocentric world picture of Nicolaus Copernicus were found in Frombork Cathedral (modern Poland) in 2005. Computer facial reconstruction performed in Warsaw at the Central Laboratory of Criminology.





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