Photo credit: Philippe Charlier
Posted on 04/23/2018 10:06:59 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Ancient bones can return a wealth of information to the modern researcher. But they can’t ever truly reveal the dead’s lost humanity. Only when the hollow sockets become the thoughtful eyes of a girl or healed fractures give a knight a handsome scar does time vanish as skeletons turn back into real human beings...#5 The French MummyLouis XVI was beheaded in 1793, and King Henry IV of France had his long-dead head removed, as revolutionaries desecrated as many royal tombs as they could find. Rediscovered in a private collection, the skull's face was digitally returned, and to the excitement of researchers, it mirrored known depictions of Henry, a mole and ear piercing included.
The embalming method fits historical records of how Henry's body was prepared, but it obscures the papery mummy's identity. Sure, the face resembles Henry, but the embalming and careless modern handling contaminated the DNA so much that it can no longer be compared with his living descendants.
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Photo credit: Philippe Charlier
#1 looks gay.
Looks like a “Marvin” to me.
Looks like Peter O’Toole.....................
Good Lord.
Could be.
Could very well be.
They may be amazing, but are they accurate?
Who can make that judgement?
The explanation is simple.
The "reconstructionist" is likely gay...
Take the skull of someone who has died that we have a photo of and hand it to these guys to see how close they come.
“Who can make that judgement?”
The artist. The artist made a selective, subjective judgment.
Yup.
One of the classic fallacies, appeal to authority (or "experts.")
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, Chapter XVII (Pg 209)
“The explanation is simple.
The “reconstructionist” is likely gay...”
Good point, so he reflects his ‘lifestyle’ in his work product. Wouldn’t be the first time!
It’s over 50 years since I read Life on the Mississippi. Need to read it again for a different perspective.
Isn’t that the same guy Stormy Daniels id’d as threatening her for coming out?
Much of the technology comes from forensic reconstruction, where they do a reconstruction and then try matching it against missing people. In those cases, they do often get feedback on how well they did.
The other faces:
Must be a highlander.
:^D
as PapaBear3625, yeah, these reconstructions are very close to the original, as they are based on the average depth of tissue over each part of the skull. If DNA is available, skin, eye, and hair color and ethnicitiy can be made much more accurate, leading to a further improvement of the likeness. When the remains are of an historical figure for whom a contemporary photo, portrait, or sculpture exists, comparisons can be made (such as happened with Robespierre, Richard III, King Tut, etc).
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