While many say that 3D printing is the technology of the future, it's often used as a gateway to the past, making ancient history more accessible to everyone. The technology has been used to give faces to a plague victim from the 17th century, an Egyptian mummy, the man behind the Neolithic Jericho skull, and Scottish king Robert the Bruce; now, researchers have combined 3D imaging technology and forensics archaeology to recreate the face of an ancient Peruvian leader, the Lady of Cao. Her preserved remains were found over ten years ago near a ruined mud-brick pyramid known as Huaca Cao Viejo, in the El Brujo Archaeological Complex north of Trujillo in Peru. Researchers believe that the Lady of Cao, who died in her twenties about 1,700 years ago, was a priestess or political ruler in the ancient Moche society of Peru, which lived in the desert valley of Chicama from about 100 to 700 A.D. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/180116/3d-imaging...f-cao-replica/