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The largest scientific investigation carried out with Guanche mummies has revealed the face of a famous mummy, that of a Guanche man of high social class who lived in Tenerife 800 years ago
This was the face of a Guanche man who was born in the Canary Islands in the year 1160. He died in the second half of the 12th century (two centuries before the Castilians came to the islands and destroyed their culture), and they embalmed him to preserve his remains in eternal life. Somehow they succeeded. Today, his face has returned to light.
The reconstruction is the ultimate step of a fascinating scientific investigation that includes the documentary “Las momias guanches” co-produced by RTVE and Story Producciones.
The Guanches carried out a laborious process to preserve their own. And they did it in such a way that his internal organs didn't break down.
The ancient Egyptians extracted them and kept them in the canopic vessels, the Guanches, however, they kept them in the embalmed body so their mummies preserve lungs, kidneys, heart and brain. The bodies were smeared with butter and volcanic rocks from Teide were introduced before they were laid out in the sun for 15 days. Its mummification process allowed the body to be kept almost intact.
Thus was found that of the mummy whose face has just been reconstruct. Preserves almost intact teeth, heart and brain.
The mummy of the Guanche man arrived in Madrid as a gift to King Carlos III in the 18th century, participated in the Universal Exposition of Paris of 1878 and was shot in various museums until it was transferred to the National Archaeological Museum, MAN, where it is still conserved. The council of Tenerife has claimed numbers with the return of the mummy.
The Guanches were taller than the Castilians and looked Negroid. This mummy, according to the researchers, must have belonged to a high social class. They deduce it because his teeth are well preserved and his hands barely worked.
The reconstruction of his face is the work of a sculptor, Juan Villa Herrero, an international benchmark in forensic reconstruction projects.
The reconstruction takes place based on a computed tomography of the mummy and, with these images, a 3D model of the face is constructed from which it sculpts as it should.
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