"From Elizabeth Taylor to Sophia Loren, there have been many faces of Cleopatra.
But this might be the most realistic of them all.
Egyptologist Sally Ann Ashton believes the compute regenerated 3D image is the best likeness of the legendary beauty famed for her ability to beguile.
Pieced together from images on ancient artefacts, including a ring dating from Cleopatra's reign 2,000 years ago, it is the culmination of more than a year of painstaking research.
The result is a beautiful young woman of mixed ethnicity - very different to the porcelain-skinned
Westernised version portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1961 movie Cleopatra."
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