Face of Neanderthal woman buried in Iraqi cave 75,000 years ago revealed

Archaeologists have reconstructed the human-like face of a Neanderthal woman who lived 75,000 years ago in a cave where the extinct species may have conducted unique funerary rituals.

Bone fragments of the Neanderthal woman named Shanidar Z were first unearthed in 2018 from a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where the extinct human relatives may have repeatedly returned to lay their dead to rest.

Studies since the 1950s have shown that the buried their dead such as laying them to rest on a bed of .