‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war

The digital reconstruction of a bronze age Mycenae woman. Photograph: Juanjo Ortega G.

She lived around 3,500 years ago – but facial reconstruction technology has brought a woman from late bronze age Mycenae back to life.

The woman was in her mid-30s when she was buried in a royal cemetery between the 16th and 17th centuries BC. The site was uncovered in the 1950s on the Greek mainland at Mycenae, the legendary seat of Homer’s King Agamemnon.