Élisabeth Daynès (Béziers, 1960-) is a French sculptor notable for her anthropological work relating to early humans.
[1] By 1981, she was working with the Théâtre de la Salamandre in Lille, creating masks for the theatre.
Some years later, the museum at Le Parc du Thot, close to the Lascaux caves, asked her to sculpt a life-sized woolly mammoth with a group of humans from the Magdalenian epoch.
[4] One Daynès sculpture at the Field Museum depicts Homo ergaster, a pre-Neanderthal hominid that lived about 1.6 million years ago.
A close resemblance to the Pharaoh is likely, even though physical features like ears, nose tip, and colors of skin and eyes cannot be reliably reconstructed.