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]
Posted on 01/18/2018 6:24:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv
An 18-year-old girl who lived in Greece 7,000 years ago and was unearthed by archaeologists in Theopetra cave, near the city of Trikala, has had her face reconstructed and is about to officially introduce herself to the public... Dawn (Avgi in Greek) is a woman from the Mesolithic era (7,000 BC) who lived in the Theopetra cave, according to Athens University professor Manolis Papagrigorakis; who has invested a great deal of time and learning in order to bring Greeks “face to face” with their ancestors...
Papagrigorakis' team is also working on the reconstruction of the skull of a girl from Feres in Magnesia prefecture who was about 5.5 years old when she died in the 5th century BC. Her remains were discovered at an unlooted marble tomb, and she has been named Idyle. Finally, another of the team's projects includes the reconstruction of a "microbial map" of Classical-era Greece.
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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]
Ugggh, my dogs started barkin’ when I opened that pic !
Well?
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.
Do you mean to say that we overestimate them, or that we underestimate them? And who is "we"?
She is actually pretty in her way. Add make up and she would look 100 times better than Kathy Griffin.
You sayin’ she might have been one of Webb Hubbell’s distant ancestors?
That kid from Deliverance?
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. :)
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.
For some reason I just thought, “Amy Carter”.
Given that it was an era before decent dentistry there may be some facial shape effects from missing teeth.
If I had the .raw file and could run it through Portrait Professional, it would be a fair comparison
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
When she went camping in the woods, the bears hid their food.
Hey, don’t we all think about her all the time?!? ;^)
This is not the same girl as the one that was 7000 years old. The 5th Century BC was long AFTER the Neolithic.
Hence the caption.
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