1960 - Elisabeth Daynes was born in Béziers, south of France.

1967 - From the age of seven, she takes drawing and painting classes at an artist workshop.

1981 - She joins the Salamandre Company of the National Theatre of Lille. She works as a make-up artist and creates her first masks.

1982 - She is noticed by German stage director Matthias Langhoff. She creates her first special effects and starts mastering unique materials like resin, silicone, colorings and earthenware.

1984 - Elisabeth Daynès is 24 when she opens her sculpting company in Belleville, Paris.

1988 - The Thot Museum in Montignac, near the famous Lascaux caves, commissions several hyper realistic reconstructions: a life-size mammoth and a group of Magdalenian people. She discovers a passion for prehistory and paleoanthropology.

1990-1996 - She collaborates with experts to learn more about paleaonthropology and decipher Human Evolution. In 1991, the opening of the Tautavel Museum dedicated to Human origins in the French Pyreneans makes her famous nationwide.

1996 - She meets Jean-Noël Vignal, a forensic anthropologist at the Forensic Institute of Paris. This is a turning point in her career as a sculptress of early humans. He brings her technology while she perfects her knowledge and expertise in anatomy.
In Germany, the success of the Neanderthal Museum and the Geo magazine exhibitions awards her as the best European artist of hyper realistic reconstruction of early humans.

1997-1999 - She discovers Tahiti and her Islands in French Polynesia. It is love at first sight. She creates The Robert Wan Pearl Museum in Papeete. At the same time, on the other side of the planet, the Australopithecus “Lucy”, maybe her finest hyper realistic reconstruction, flies off to Mexico City to be displayed at the National Anthropology and History Institute.

2001-2002 - Elisabeth Daynès designs the museography of the temporary exhibition “Histories of Man” in Montignac, Dordogne, that is dedicated to Human Evolution and Human Origin.

2003 - She travels to Georgia with an unusual early human couple, the Dmanisi couple, a pair of 1.8 million years old Homo erectus. There, she meets their discoverer, David Lordkipanidze, a world famous prominence in the paleoanthropology field.
Another “Lucy” sets out to conquer the United States and draws the crowds at the Field Museum in Chicago.

2004 - As an admirer of Rodin and even more of Camille Claudel, she accepts the German Halle Museum’s suggestion to create a 200,000 year old man sitting in the position of “The Thinker”.

2005 - Jorge Wagensberg, philosopher, physicist and curator of the “CosmoCaixa”, the Science Museum of Barcelona, presents five of her reconstruction of early humans in an exhibition dedicated to the shapes of nature.

2006 - Elisabeth Daynès exports her talents overseas once more. Her hyper realistic reconstruction of Tutankhamun makes the cover of 25 international issues of The National Geographic Society magazine. The “King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” exhibition devoted to the young Egyptian pharaoh attracts huge crowds in all major cities of the United States and abroad, and makes her famous around the world.

2007 - The Musée de l’Homme of Paris presents a preview of “Flores”, a creature of Indonesian origins that triggers further debates on the theory of Human Evolution.

2008 - Elisabeth Daynès contracts two huge projects in Sweden and Croatia: about twenty new characters to create. They will join the hundreds or so sculptures scattered all around the world illustrating Human origin. .

2009 - After the two hyper realistic sculptures of Einstein at the ages of 25 and 70 ordered by CosmoCaixa, the Science Museum of Barcelona for the 50th anniversary of his death, it is now the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian that asks Elisabeth Daynes a reconstruction of Charles Darwin before boarding the Beagle in commemoration of the 200th birthday of Darwin