That's most probably what they use to train the AI automatically: hundreds of scans of skulls and photos of the person it was before, and the AI does trial and error to correct its algorithm until the reconstruction matches the photos.

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Then we only have 16% left to discover. That doesn't sound as cool.

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I really don't get how this is surprising, there were people that looked just like me 30,000 years ago.

That's a pretty presentist* view of historical people. Every historical group has lived on a microscale. There would be daily things that would make you laugh, cry, rage. Even the poorest would smile when their baby did something silly during dinner time. There's plenty of art and written heritage that proves this.

Edit: changed modernist to presentist.

They actually got her mostly right. Just some smaller details are off. Like, her freckles are wrong. And her hair was lighter than that, especially in the summer. And the only time I ever saw it brushed that well was her wedding day. And her lips were never that smooth- always chapped in the winter and sunburned in the summer. She gave up trying to play the flute because of that, and took up the pipe instead. She could really get people moving with her pipe. But that's her alright- I'd recognize her anywhere.

That was just some really freaky predictive art. Absolutely flooring how the artist rightly assumed his aging process.

I saw it the other day but learned about it long ago. The BM likely did save some of the marbles taken from Greece, but it's no longer the case.

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That young woman played state level tennis for my secondary school. I think she got a degree in marketing and worked for a bank. Married a Dr. Good for you Jessica, you did well.

Agreed. But maybe they just don’t want us digging up granny so we can see what she’d look like in a colour photo.

Unfortunately, I recently learned that line was popularized by Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar and there's zero minimal evidence it was ever actually said.

The series Rome apparently has a very accurate (from what we know) portrayal of Caesar's asssassination. He doesn't say anything.

Jon Oliver?

Very interesting. I’d say you have more to work with if you have the person’s skull though.

What are you talking about? Forensic scientists rebuild faces from skulls of the recently deceased all the time. It’s used for body identification.

How do they know what colour hair people had? I guess white or grey could be assumed at a certain age, but red or blonde?

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Strong dude holding a lions skin is 100% Hercules though? I guess the club too.. but still I’m surprised they’re this definitive. Particularly because he’s rarely depicted this young

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I think it’s fine.

The age of the statue for that region would indicate it would have been made by “Romans”. The Roman’s depicted the Greek hero “Hercules”. Remember that even though they bastardized the gods Hercules was still considered a Greek Hero.. even though as a Greek his name was Heracles

Named after Hera, lifelong enemies?

There is an exhibit called Probably Chelsea at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. It depicts several different sculptures based off the same DNA of a person. There is a lot of room for interpretation of things like DNA it seems.

https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/probably-chelsea