Mummy Skull Facial Approximation (VCU_3D_5170)

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This facial appromximation was created using a CT scan of the cranium of a mummy named Nesiur who is currently housed at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery in Dayton, Ohio. The cranium was extracted from the CT scan by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Forensic Anthropologist Terrie Simmons-Ehrhart who guided now VCU alumnae Mason Smith in creating this facial approximation of what Nesiur would have looked like. According to Jill E. Krieg-Accrocco, Curator of Anthropology and Exhibitions, Nesiur was excavated at the Deir el-Bahari site in western Thebes in 1922 by H.E. Winlock of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Deir el-Bahari is the location of mortuary temples and tombs along the west bank of the Nile River. Nesiur was found buried in a chamber cut in the floor of a brick chapel. Her coffin and style of mummification suggests that Nesiur lived during the 25th Dynasty (circa 700 BC). She was donated to the Museum in 1926. Courtesy of the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery.