Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Genetic researchers have revealed highly detailed 3D reconstructions of the faces of the three Egyptian mummies – using DNA extracted from their bodies in a groundbreaking use of new technologies.
The digital reconstructions depict the men at 25 years old despite the preserved corpses being between 2,023 and 2,797 years old.The pioneering tech used by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Tubingen in Germany performed enzymatic damage repair on each mummy before creating the images, according to Science Times.In the news release from Parabon Nanolabs, they selected three samples with the highest quality to analyze in it's first.
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