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AeonsOfStrife t1_ir29qn0 wrote

Reply to comment by smittythehoneybadger in Hercules statue, approximately 2,000 years old, discovered in Greece - The Jerusalem Post by DRKILLM0NGER

It would still have been referred to most often as Heracles, as Greek was the dominant language of the eastern portions of the empire. Latin never took hold as the lingua franca of the area, so along it Heracles is more accurate to what locals (and later Romans themselves in the area) would have called it.

But I digress, it is mostly a matter of which perspective you find most personally valid.

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Tria821 t1_ir28fla wrote

Reply to comment by levinthereturn in See lifelike facial reconstructions of a medieval Scottish woman, priest and bishop by unheated1

Forensic reconstruction help in modern day murder cases. We can practice on old skulls, 'humanizing' bones, to draw the interests of modern man. On the pathology side, we learn a lot from studying the remains of even the recently dead all the way through early humans to see how diseases mutated, how/if they were treated back then, and to learn how a disease might progress without having to leave current patients to suffer for research.

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Derrick_Mur t1_ir24au0 wrote

Reply to comment by levinthereturn in See lifelike facial reconstructions of a medieval Scottish woman, priest and bishop by unheated1

Generically, humans do tend to have the same appearance features, but there’s variety at the level of specifics, especially when considering geographic location. For example, Subsaharan Africans, East Asians, and Western Europeans share a lot of facial features, but there is also notable differences as well. The same holds for people in the past. In that regard, these things give us a better grasp of specific features that were commonly exhibited in a given place and in a given time frame

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