To those wondering what CGI is? It stands for Common Gateway Interface. It is a program extensively used and here it is used in the forensic facial reconstruction. Often historians, scientist and curious minds have wondered how people looked in past. We did have death masks, paintings to work with but to accurately show how a person looked like was a dream too impossible to be real. But through this Path-breaking CGI programming, it has now become real to see how important historical figures looked like. Well, you might not say it’s perfect but it surely will make you feel history coming alive.
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre – (6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794)
He was a French lawyer and politician, one of the best known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. He campaigned for universal male suffrage in France, price controls on basic food commodities and the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. He was an ardent opponent of the death penalty but played an important role in arranging the execution of King Louis XVI, which led to the establishment of a French Republic.
Cleopatra VII Philopator – ( August 12, 30 BC)
She is known in history simply as Cleopatra and was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, briefly survived as pharaoh by her son Caesarion. Cleopatra represented herself as the reincarnation of the Egyptian goddess Isis.
Mary, Queen of Scots – (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587)
Mary, the only surviving legitimate child of James V of Scotland, was six days old when her father died and she acceded to the throne. She spent most of her childhood in France while Scotland was ruled by regents, and in 1558, she married the Dauphin of France, Francis. He ascended the French throne as King Francis II in 1559, and Mary briefly became queen consort of France, until his death in December 1560.
William Shakespeare – (1564 – 23 April 1616)
He was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon” His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 54 sonnets, two long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of the uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
Nicolaus Copernicus – ( 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543)
He was a Renaissance– and Reformation-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the centre of the universe. Copernicus was born and died in Royal Prussia, a region that had been part of the Kingdom of Poland since 1466. A polyglot and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was also a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist.
Tutankhamun
He was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled c. 1332–1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom or sometimes the New Empire Period. He has, since the discovery of his intact tomb, been referred to colloquially as King Tut. His original name, Tutankhaten, means “Living Image of Aten“, while Tutankhamun means “Living Image of Amun“. His mother was his father’s sister and wife, whose name is unknown but whose remains are positively identified as “The Younger Lady” mummy found in KV35.The “mysterious” deaths of a few of those who excavated Tutankhamun’s tomb has been popularly attributed to the curse of the pharaohs.
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Saint Anthony of Padua – (1195 – 13 June 1231)
He is also known as Anthony of Lisbon and was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was born and raised in a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in Padua, Italy. He was Noted by his contemporaries for his powerful preaching, expert knowledge of scripture, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick, he was one of the most quickly canonized saints in church history. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 January 1946. He is also the patron saint of lost things.
Robert I – (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329)
He was popularly known as Robert the Bruce, was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. Robert was one of the most famous warriors of his generation and eventually led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England. He fought successfully during his reign to regain Scotland’s place as an independent country and is today revered in Scotland as a national hero.
Henry IV –(December 1553 – 14 May 1610)
He was also known by the epithet “Good King Henry”, was King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, another branch of the Capetian dynasty. He was assassinated in 1610 by François Ravaillac, a fanatical Catholic, and was succeeded by his son Louis XIII. He was baptised as a Catholic but raised in the Protestant faith by his mother Jeanne d’Albret, Queen of Navarre, Henry inherited the throne of Navarre in 1572 on the death of his mother. As a Huguenot, Henry was involved in the French Wars of Religion, barely escaping assassination in the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre. He later led Protestant forces against the royal army.
Neferneferuaten – (1370 – c. 1330 BC)
She was an Egyptian queen and the Great Royal Wife (chief consort) of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshipped one god only, Aten, or the sun disc. With her husband, she reigned at what was arguably the wealthiest period of Ancient Egyptian history. Some scholars believe that Nefertiti ruled briefly as Neferneferuaten after her husband’s death and before the accession of Tutankhamun, although this identification is a matter of ongoing debate. If Nefertiti did rule as Pharaoh, her reign was marked by the fall of Amarna and relocation of the capital back to the traditional city of Thebes.
