With her long, brown hair and determined gaze, the new facial reconstruction lets us peek into the world of an archaic human who lived tens of thousands of years ago.

With pronounced brow ridges and no chins, the skulls of Neanderthals look different from those of our own species, Homo sapiens, said Dr. Emma Pomeroy.

The face of the Neanderthal woman who lived some 75,000 years ago has been recreated using a well-preserved skull. In 2018, the University of Cambridge archaeologists unearthed a flattened skull inside a Shanidar cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of bone fragments by a team of archaeologists and conservators.