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Dr. Luca Kis, a research associate of the Department of Biological Anthropology of Szeged (SZTE), is creating digital facial reconstructions of people who have been dead for hundreds of years, based on human remains.
Dr. Luca Kis encountered the possibility of facial reconstruction while specializing in biology and art. Hungarian experts had previously only worked on sculptural reconstruction. The researcher is the first to digitally create facial reconstructions in Hungary. Dr. Luca Kis completed her PhD at the Department of Biological Anthropology at the University of Szeged and started to study digital facial reconstruction online alongside her research.
The workflow is similar to creating sculptures: each step is done manually, but in a digital environment.
This way the reconstruction can be better controlled and improved during the process, because each layer can be made transparent one by one.
Dr. Luca Kis is currently making facial reconstructions based on the skulls of several people buried in the mass graves of the Battle of Mohács. Her other project is tied to the work of archaeologist Gabriella Lezsák of the Ópusztaszer National Heritage Park. She is reconstructing the face of a man found in a richly annotated grave in the Kunszállás-Fülöpjakab cemetery of the Early Antiquity. The scientific publication of this is currently underway.
In an interview made by the University of Szeged, Luca Kiss said that the reconstruction of the people buried in the mass graves near Mohács can be quite challenging, because the people were thrown on top of each other thus their faces got compressed. Only a few skulls can be reconstructed, but they serve an interesting cause:
One of the aims of the reconstruction is to help people connect emotionally with the individual when it is displayed in the museum, so that visitors can immerse themselves in the message that the exhibition is trying to convey.
We try to show individuals from different age groups and we also illustrate different diseases and types of injuries”, said the scientist.
Via MTI; Featured picture: Wikipedia