Greece Reconstructıon Of An Ancıent Skull

epa02117825 ' Myrtis ' on display in the Goulandris Natural History Museum in Athens on 15 April 2010 . ' Myrtis ' is the reconstruction by scientists of an 11-year-old Athenian girl that liveddied in ancient Athens during the 5th century BC , a victim of a plague that also killed the ancient Athenian statesman Periclesroughly one third of all people living in the city at that time . Her bones were discovered in 1994-95 , in a mass grave with another 150 bodies . Her skull was in an unusually good conditionthis inspired Athens University orthodontics professor Manolis Papagrigorakis to enlist the help of specialist scientists from Sweden to recreate her features , using the ' Manchester ' facial reconstruction technique . Scientists decided to give ' Myrtis ' brown eyesbrown hair , arranged in a Classical era style , the majority of Athenians at that time .  EPA/ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU