When she died, the people who knew her face lost it.

It was gone.

The skull remained, eventually; the genome remained, eventually.

But the face that the people in her life had known — that recognition and presence — was gone immediately, as all faces are when the person who carries them dies.

The 2026 reconstruction effort is, in some sense, a gesture toward recovering what was lost: a gesture partial, imperfect, uncertain, but genuinely aimed at giving back to the historical record some image of the person who was there.

The three faces are not her face.