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The Science That's Bringing Back the Dead: Facial Reconstruction
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It's not perfect. It never will be. But it's getting remarkably close.
When Egyptian mummy portraits have been compared with facial reconstructions of the same individuals, the similarities are often striking. The science works, and it's improving every year as our reference databases grow and our technologies advance.
But why does this matter? Why should anyone care what some Neanderthal from 75,000 years ago looked like? Or an Anglo-Saxon girl from the 7th century? Or a "vampire" from 18th century Connecticut?
When we look at the reconstructed face of Shanidar Z, a Neanderthal woman who lived 75,000 years ago in what's now Iraqi Kurdistan, something profound happens. She stops being an abstract concept—"a Neanderthal"—and becomes someone. A person who lived, breathed, thought, and felt. Who had family, who experienced joy and pain, who looked up at the same stars we do. continue reading the article: https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/
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