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A vivid digital reconstruction has brought to life the face of a Mycenaean woman who lived over 3,500 years ago, offering an unusually poignant glimpse into the world of ancient Greece, long before Homer or the Trojan War. Looking Into the Face of Bronze Age Greece This ambitious project was launched at the initiative of Dr. Emily Hauser, a historian and lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Exeter. The final image, she said, was both “incredibly exciting” and “unexpectedly modern.” Mycenaean Lady Fresco, (Yair-haklai/ CC BY-SA 4.0 ) The lifelike reconstruction is rooted in forensic science and archaeology. It began with a clay replica of the woman’s skull, crafted in the 1980s by researchers at the University of