The National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands unveiled the new bust Friday, giving viewers a fascinating image of what Caesar would have looked like in real life — complete with a huge bump covering part of his head.
"So he has a crazy bulge on his head,” said physical anthropologist Maja d'Hollosy, the person behind the reconstruction, according to Dutch newspaper, HLN.
“A doctor said that such a thing occurs in a heavy delivery,” she said. “You do not invent that as an artist.”
The reconstruction was made on the basis of a 3D scan of a marble portrait in the museum’s collection.
“The piece of sculpture is pretty damaged,” the museum said in a news release. “That is why it was decided to supplement the disappeared parts, such as nose and chin, on the basis of second portraiti of Julius Caesar: the so-called Tusculum bust.”
The museum said the 3D reconstrcution will be on display until the end of August.
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