CT Scan Reveals Two-Faced Nefertiti

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According to German researchers, there is more to the 3,300-year-old bust of ancient Egypt’s Queen Nefertiti than meets the eye. The team uncovered a second, hidden face within the bust—a detailed carving in the limestone core that differs from the external stucco face—after an imaging procedure known as a computed tomography (CT) scan allowed them to study artifact’s stone core. A comparison of the two versions revealed that the sculptor enhanced the cheekbones, smoothed creases around the mouth, and fixed a slight bump on the ridge of the nose of the visible, stucco visage.


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[Signa]

that's amazing! A some what accurate 3000 year-old face!

[YWD67]

HA! Guess that makes it the earliest known face lift.

[Mels_Smileys45]

I also like this story that came out awhile back. Freaking cool!

Experts Uncover A Painting Van Gogh Covered Up




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Scientists found this portrait of a woman hidden behind Vincent Van Gogh's "Patch of Grass." University of Antwerp and Delft University of Technology





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All Things Considered (http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=2), August 2, 2008 · It's rare that new paintings by Old Masters are discovered. But that's exactly what happened in the case of a recently uncovered work by Vincent Van Gogh. It was found at a museum in the Netherlands — but the painting wasn't lost in some dusty corridor, it was hidden under the paint of another Van Gogh.
Scientists using a giant X-ray machine found an early portrait of a peasant woman beneath Van Gogh's 1887 work "Patch of Grass."
"What you see in the discovered portrait is a fairly detailed picture of a Dutch rural lady … very similar to those Van Gogh painted in the same period," says Koen Janssens, a chemistry professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium.


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[1cooldude]

that's very cool.

[fleecy]

cool find.... bet there's actually more revision of art out there than we know.

[ConfusedMime]

Makes you wonder how much we really miss in artifacts by just taking things at surface value