Ramses II was pharaoh of Egypt about 3,000 years ago and his mummy is still preserved. Radiologist Sahar Saleem recreated a model of his skull by using computed tomography to X-ray his mummy.
The face was recreated in England
The data was then sent to John Moores University in Liverpool, UK. There, the face was recreated in a computer program otherwise used in criminal investigations to identify human remains.
"We know that 70 percent of the surface area of reconstruction has a margin of error of two percent," says Caroline Wilkinson.
The work took several months
"It's really a handsome king. He resembles many of the people I see in Cairo and in Egypt every day," Saher Salaam said when she sees the final image of Ramse's face.
The whole world of science – Pharaoh's face is on SVT Play and will be shown on SVT2, Monday 20 March at 20:00.