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Revealed: face of a Sudanese princess entombed in Egypt 2,500 years ago

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The face of the woman mummified and buried inside the sarcophagus has been brought to life in a dramatic digital reconstruction.

Curators believe she was a black woman from the kingdom of Kush , one of the largest empires in the ancient world, which took control of Upper Egypt and whose lands included modern-day Sudan .

Dr Chris Rynn realised the woman had a skull shape that was not classically Kemetic ancient Egyptian .

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80

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informal

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English

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45

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