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Laura Geggel

Woman who died in deadly Vasa warship's wreck 400 years ago reconstructed in lifelike detail

We see the reconstruction of a woman's face and upper torso. She has pale skin, blonde hair and a solemn expression. She wears a tall bright red hat, a gray jacket and a white blouse with a collar.

When researchers raised the Vasa — a 17th-century Swedish warship that sank in Stockholm harbor on its maiden voyage — in the 1960s, they recovered nearly 20 skeletons. Scientists determined that one of those skeletons, dubbed G, was a male they called Gustav.

Earlier this year, a genetic analysis determined that G wasn't male but female. Now, a new reconstruction of G, whose new nickname is Gertrude, reveals her likeness before the deadly 1628 shipwreck.

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