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An international team of archaeologists, anthropologists, sculptors and forensic experts presented the image of a Nabatean woman named Hinata, who lived about 2000 years ago. This is the first reconstruction of the appearance of a representative of this mysterious people, it is reported CNN.
Hinata's remains were discovered in a tomb in the ancient city of Khegra (Saudi Arabia) in 2015. Judging by the tombstone inscriptions, she belonged to a noble and wealthy family.
It was possible to reproduce the appearance with the help of the preserved remains and computer tomography. After that, her face was "brought to life" on a 3D printer. The bust is already on display at the Al-Ula Visitor Center in Saudi Arabia.
The authors of the project admit that some features of appearance, such as eye color and wrinkles, cannot be reconstructed. Therefore, scientists resorted to the most plausible artistic assumptions.
Nevertheless, some experts doubt that modern technologies already allow to reproduce exemplary copies of ancient people. For example, Lawrence Hapiot, an archaeologist from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology posted on his Twitter that "face reconstruction still has some unscientific interpretations."
The Nabatean civilization did not leave significant historical texts. Information about her mainly comes from tomb inscriptions throughout the Middle East and rare archaeological finds. It existed approximately in the III-II centuries. B.C. The capital of the kingdom was now the Jordanian city of Petra.
