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Athenian plague victim facial reconstruction
Sorry i do not know Greek so i had to use google translator for thedirty job
One person 2,500 years back in the light
He was just 11 years old when he died 2,500 years ago in Athens, at the time of Pericles, of typhoid fever, as hundreds of Athenians, victims of famine in Athens, a terrible epidemic that decimated the 1 / 3 of the population of the city.
The rest of article translated here: http://translate.google.com/translat...57&sl=el&tl=en
Re: Athenian plague victim facial reconstruction
Why does he look so weird....
Why couldn't they give him hair combed to the side at least...
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude greater than
the animating contest for freedom, go
home from us in peace. We seek not
your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch
down and lick the hand that feeds you,
and may posterity forget that ye were
our countrymen."
-Samuel Adams
The 120th Article, § 4
Re: Athenian plague victim facial reconstruction
I've got a nice link with more info and another pic. And it's a she.
The two sides of Myrtis, a 11-year old girl victim of the Famine of Athens in 430-426 bc who was found in a mass grave of Ceramikus in 1995, during the excavations of the Underground works.Οι δύο όψεις της Μύρτιδος, της εντεκάχρονης κόρης που έπεσε θύμα του Λοιμού των Αθηνών το 430 - 426 π.Χ. και που βρέθηκε σε ομαδικό τάφο του Κεραμεικού το 1995, στις ανασκαφές για τις εργασίες του Μετρό.
Under the noble patronage of Jimkatalanos
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