Neolithic girl's reconstructed face unveiled at Athens Acropolis Museum on January 19th

Tornos news ^ | January 10, 2018 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Myrtis is the reconstructed head of a girl that once lived in Classical-era ancient Athens and died during the plague in Athens in the 5th century BC [Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons Copyright: Tilemahos Efthimiadis License: CC-BY-SA]

[SunkenCiv]

[snooter55]

Ugggh, my dogs started barkin’ when I opened that pic !

[NorthMountain]

Well?

[Jamestown1630]

These reconstructions of the faces of ancient people are fascinating to me. They aren’t any different from us; and in them we see our own humanity.

I think we misjudge how wise they were and how much they understood, from their own perspectives, in their own ways.

[NorthMountain]

I think we misjudge how wise they were and how much they understood,

Do you mean to say that we overestimate them, or that we underestimate them? And who is "we"?

[madison10]

She is actually pretty in her way. Add make up and she would look 100 times better than Kathy Griffin.

[Michael.SF.]

Here she is with long hair and lip stick:

[NorthMountain]

You sayin’ she might have been one of Webb Hubbell’s distant ancestors?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

That kid from Deliverance?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

It’s so cool that there are people in this world that have the talent to show us what another human looked like from so many years ago. Fascinating. :)

[mairdie]

I’m so very glad you put this up. It’s wonderfully exciting to actually SEE someone from history as if they still lived. Not a painting. Not a sculpture. The best of both. Really thrilling.

[vladimir998]

For some reason I just thought, “Amy Carter”.

[posterchild]

Given that it was an era before decent dentistry there may be some facial shape effects from missing teeth.

[RedStateRocker]

If I had the .raw file and could run it through Portrait Professional, it would be a fair comparison

[Jamestown1630]

I think that the modern human “intelligentsia” have generally UNDERestimated the intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, of ancient peoples.

There’s an old and interesting book that I’ve been skimming, prior to settling down with it:

‘The Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures’, by Alvin Boyd Kuhn

https://archive.org/details/lostlightaninter029017mbp

[tumblindice]

When she went camping in the woods, the bears hid their food.

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, don’t we all think about her all the time?!? ;^)

[Alas Babylon!]

This is not the same girl as the one that was 7000 years old. The 5th Century BC was long AFTER the Neolithic.

[SunkenCiv]

Hence the caption.