Facial depiction of Ramesses II (2022)

The face of Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II has been revealed for the first time thanks to work by Face Lab researchers at Liverpool John Moores University. A team led by Professor Caroline Wilkinson and the University of Cairo reconstructed how the Pharaoh would have looked at 45 and at the age of his death at 90 using state-of-the-art techniques. Ramesses II was arguably the greatest and most powerful Egyptian king of the during the New Kingdom period and lived from 1303 -1213 BC. His tomb was moved discovered in 1881 and the contents is now on display in the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. The Face Lab team worked with Sahar Saleem, a Mummy expert and Professor of Radiology to produce two facial depictions using CT data, photographs, and historical data of the pharaoh. Prof Caroline Wilkinson, Dr Jessica Liu and Mark Roughley spent 3 months generating both faces with full CGI textures. Their reconstructions have featured strongly in the media globally, inclu