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Aristos Georgiou

New reconstructions show piercing eyes of men who lived 2,500 years ago in mysterious Indian civilization

Digital facial reconstructions of a young and old Indian man.

Two men who lived around 2,500 years ago in what is now southern India have been brought to life in new digital reconstructions — and research into their remains is revealing secrets about their mysterious civilization.

The realistic facial models are based on two skulls discovered at a burial site known as Kondagai, located in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Kumaresan Ganesan, the head of the Department of Genetics at Madurai Kamaraj University who was involved with the analysis of human remains found at Kondagai, told Live Science.

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