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Face of Tehran’s 7 millennia old woman reconstructed
Mehr News Agency ^ | June 17, 2015 | unattributed

Posted on 06/17/2015 10:05:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

In November 2014, Mahsa Vahabi, an Archeology student serendipitously discovered in the dug soil in Mowlavi St., of Tehran Water and Wastewater Company some pottery.

Her discovery of simple earthen material drew attentions from her fellow archeologist and a study team addressed the place on Mowlavi St. Further excavations uncovered from under the soil bones and skeleton, reportedly and supposedly belonging to a women from 7,000 years ago.

Soon archeology researchers carried out research to find out more about its characteristics. A 3D documentation method was carried out on the skeleton by Mohammad Reza Rokni, an expert in Archeology Research Center.

He told Mehr News that to develop a 3D documentation, “we used whole parts of the skeleton and the principle of symmetry of human skeleton to reconstruct the missing parts or parts which are unfit for the reconstruction.”

...Rokni also commented on the way the hairs of the woman was reconstructed; “since we had no trace of the hairs, choosing a color for hair was a matter of taste; in doing so, we drew upon the signs in pottery found in Cheshmeh Ali; five strong and standard modeling software versions helped us synchronize and corrected,” he told Mehr News.

He claimed that the finished reconstructed face would be 95 per cent accurate compared with the original face of woman last seen 7,000 years ago.

(Excerpt) Read more at en.mehrnews.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; ancientskeleton; godsgravesglyphs; iran; mahsavahabi
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To: SunkenCiv

>>>”He claimed that the finished reconstructed face would be 95 per cent accurate compared with the original face of woman last seen 7,000 years ago.”<<<

Original face last seen 7000 yrs ago by whom??


21 posted on 06/18/2015 2:55:18 AM PDT by odds
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To: odds

By her killer.


22 posted on 06/18/2015 9:15:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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23 posted on 06/18/2015 9:15:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Those guys! Watching too many Keanu Reeves movies.


24 posted on 06/18/2015 9:20:18 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: SunkenCiv

Fantasy.


25 posted on 06/18/2015 9:25:39 AM PDT by odds
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To: SunkenCiv

These reconstructions are probably reasonable accurate as they are used to help identify victims of air crashes and do quite well.


26 posted on 06/18/2015 9:29:01 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: odds

The reconstruction?


27 posted on 06/18/2015 9:35:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: cynwoody

That was such a letdown, the original attempt looked like Cap’n Picard.


28 posted on 06/18/2015 9:40:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Yardstick; Covenantor

Probably didn’t survive that bus crash after all, *and* fell into a time portal left on the set of an earlier movie.


29 posted on 06/18/2015 9:40:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

I agree. Looks like this is a virtual reconstruction, as opposed to those nice 3-d resin type seen in many US museums.


30 posted on 06/18/2015 9:41:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yes, and more..

I don’t know how someone can claim “the finished reconstructed face would be 95 per cent accurate compared with the original face of woman last seen 7,000 years ago.”!

Firstly, no mention of a killer in the article.

Secondly, who exactly was the last person who saw the “original face of woman 7000 yrs ago”? Is the person still alive, or some evidence of “seen woman” or what a woman or man looked like 7000 yrs ago in Iran or that region? or am I completely misreading the article?

Thirdly, I have two friends who are surgeons, one specializes in facial maxillary (reconstruction of face from most recent photographs). He said the accuracy of a reconstructed face based on a most recent photo, even using a computer software program is at most 80% - even a fraction of an inch anywhere on the face makes a world of difference. IOW, it can look completely like a different person.

Fourthly, just look at Trevor Rees-Jones (Diana’s bodyguard). His face was reconstructed for real using before the accident photographs, and he now looks totally like a different person.

Anyway, I found it the photo you posted in #1 interesting; she looks like a girl who is in my team at work & work for me - it’s uncanny. She is an Israeli who immigrated here with her husband & kids few yrs ago, nice woman.


31 posted on 06/18/2015 10:03:50 AM PDT by odds
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To: odds

The killer thing, that was a joke. Guess it went over big.


32 posted on 06/18/2015 11:21:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv
By her killer.

Ötzi, aka Frozen Fritz, the 5000-year-old mummy found in an Alpine glacier in 1991, was initially believed to have died from exposure or a fall during a mountain trek. However, it was soon discovered that he had been murdered. Later speculation, based on the amount of stuff he had with him and where it was found, is that he was killed in the lowlands and, being a person of some status in has community, was transported into the mountains for burial. Then the glacier disrupted his tomb, complicating the investigation.

33 posted on 06/18/2015 12:45:08 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: SunkenCiv

Did someone say “mummy”?

34 posted on 06/19/2015 10:33:34 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Nah, got that one; besides, not even a killer lives 7000 yrs, well maybe spiritually ;)


35 posted on 06/19/2015 10:26:19 PM PDT by odds
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