It became known what Tutankhamun’s grandmother looked like

The face of Tutankhamun’s grandmother, Queen Tiye, was reconstructed from her mummified remains using a computer program. 3,400 years after the birth of this influential Egyptian woman with an unusual fate, you can understand what she looked like, writes DailyMail.

The digital artist “restored” the soft tissue on the bones of the mummy’s facial skull in accordance with its anatomical features, added subcutaneous volume and long curly hair. The resulting image was of a beautiful young woman with a shock of brown hair, large brown eyes, a heart-shaped mouth and a dark complexion.

Queen Tiye was the daughter of an Egyptian chariot commander and harem ruler. Not being of royal blood, she, however, became the favorite of her husband, the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, who reigned from 1390 to 53. BC e. He often gave Tia preference among his many wives and involved her in government affairs. The name of this great royal wife even appeared next to the name of the pharaoh in official documents.

Tiya was the mother of Amenhotep IV and the grandmother of the famous Tutankhamun, who became pharaoh at the age of eight or nine and reigned from 1332 to 1323 BC. e. It was with the discovery of his virtually untouched tomb in 1922 that a new round of interest in Ancient Egypt began in the world.

The remains of Queen Tiye and another female mummy were discovered in 1898 in the tomb of Amenhotep II in the Valley of the Kings by the French archaeologist Victor Loret. Before they were identified, the mummies were called “Elder Lady” and “Young Lady”.

Initially, experts believed that the “Elder Lady” could be Queen Nefertiti, who reigned during the 18th Dynasty as the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten – the son of Queen Tiye. However, a strand of hair found in another burial with an inscription mentioning Tia’s name was found by DNA to be an almost exact copy of the “Elder Lady’s” hair. It is known that Queen Thia died between the ages of 40 and 60.