Time is the likely culprit. Sculpted during Egypt’s New Kingdom, “Fragment of a Queen’s Face” (c. 1390–1336 B.C.) has endured ...

A photoshop artist reconstructed the face of Queen Tiye, the grandmother of King Tut, from her 3,000-year-old mummified remains. The result brings the ancient queen's face to life.

It is a piece of funerary artwork variously identified by scholars as Queen Nefertiti or Queen Tiye, but it might be neither. The portrait’s provenance, like most of its original material, is ...