A Mycenaean aristocrat is digitally revealed

Did they have red hair, blue eyes and light skin the women who lived 37 centuries ago in the Mycenaean Mycenae?

At least these features were attributed to digital technology to the face of the unique Mycenaean that was buried in the tomb C of the Mycenaean Burial B circle (west of the city’s Acropolis), which was revealed yesterday via a report by the British newspaper « Observer ».

The only woman among 35 skeletons – based on DNA analyzes – between the age of 30 and 35.

She was buried in this particular circle where she was buried in a position of power, not because of a wedding bond, but because her origin was imposed, as she was a sister of a man who was built with an electro mask (exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum) and weapons.

The two brothers seem to have died in a few months difference.

Although the tools used by digital media artist Juano Ortega G. (to whom the portrait is rendered) were not known to « give flesh and bones » to the woman’s faces, it is very likely to be very likely to use artificial intelligence.

In any case, according to the report, a plaster model was used as a basis for the creation of this digital image, which was created in the context of a scientific research conducted in 2008 by the University of Manchester and published in the Archaeological Review « Journal of Archaeological Science ».

In that study, however, no evidence of the colors of the two brothers’ characteristics had been provided, but it was only mentioned that they both had a heart -shaped face.

« We can – for the first time – look at the past, » says award -winning historian and author Dr. Emily Hauser, who commissioned the digital rehabilitation of the Mycenaean face who lived in the 16th century. B.C. – Many centuries before the time described in the Homeric epics – for the needs of her new book « Mythica: A new story of Homer’s world, through women who have been silenced » (ed. Penguin), which will be released on April 17.

« My breath was cut. Digital restorations convince us that these people really existed, « continues the British writer, who teaches ancient history at the University of East. « It is incredibly exciting to think that, for the first time since she was buried under the earth more than 3,500 years ago, we can look at her real face, » she continues for the woman who pressed the same soil as those allegedly faded by mythical figures, such as her sister,

The author, among other things, states that there is evidence that the woman’s bones state suggest that she suffered from arthritis to her vertebrae and hands, a possible « indication of recurrent weaving, a common and physically painful activity for women, which we have seen in her. »

In the same context, he states that the weapons that were considered a man’s offerings are now estimated to belong to the female burial, but without substantiating this view or referring to some relevant scientific publication.

And he concludes that technology offers us the « wonderful opportunity to link the real experiences of women with their ancient myths and stories ».