A vivid digital reconstruction has brought to life the face of a Mycenaean woman who lived over 3,500 years ago, offering an unusually poignant glimpse into the world of ancient Greece, from long before the time of Homer or the Trojan War.

This ambitious project was launched at the initiative of Dr. Emily Hauser, a historian and lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Exeter. The final image, she said, was both “incredibly exciting” and “unexpectedly modern.”

“For the first time, we are looking into the face of a woman from a kingdom associated with Helen of Troy —Helen’s sister, Clytemnestra, was queen of Mycenae in legend—and from where the poet imagined the Greeks of the Trojan War setting out,” Dr. Hauser explained in an interview published in the Daily Mail.