Egyptian Mummy Head Undergoes Facial-Reconstruction

Available for over a year

A new facial reconstruction of Tahemaa, the 25th dynasty Egyptian mummy, is now on display, along with a three-dimensional model of the skull. Based on scans completed in 2009 at City University in London, Vanessa Pearson a third-year Model Making student at Arts University Bournemouth has built up the head and facial features using plastiline clay before molding it in fibreglass, and making a final cast in platinum silicon. The reconstruction comes after the scan discovered Tahemaa was likely to be in her mid-fifties and not her early 20's as previously thought.