ATF experts reconstructs face of Egyptian mummy
Posted on 11. Sep, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Buzz
Artists with forensic science background reconstructed face of Ka-i-nefer, the Egyptian mummy that is present at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.
The experts’ team from ATF (Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) analyzed the 2,500-year-old mummy along with a city-based cardiologist and curator from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
The ATF experts worked for over three months and they took help from the computer program EFOIT (Electronic Facial Identification Technique).
The EFOIT program that specializes in facial recognition and identification besides training say that Ka-i-nefer to be man between 45 to 55 years of age and who must have been 5’5” with foot size of 7.
