Empires rose and fell.

Religious traditions emerged and spread across the globe.

The Roman Empire was founded and collapsed.

European civilization went through the classical period, the medieval period, the Renaissance, the age of exploration, the Industrial Revolution, and the modern age.

And then, approximately 45,000 years after her death, scientists drilling into the petrous bone of her skull extracted molecules of her DNA and used them to reconstruct her genome, estimate her age, infer her pigmentation, and determine that she belonged to a lineage with no modern descendants.

Shortly after that, three teams reconstructed her face using three different methods, and a fourth team compared the three results with geometric morphometric analysis and published the comparison in an international peer-reviewed journal.