{"id":71104,"date":"2025-05-10T01:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T05:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=71104"},"modified":"2025-05-06T09:20:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T13:20:34","slug":"imagine-seeing-the-ancients-in-person-with-ais-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2025\/05\/10\/imagine-seeing-the-ancients-in-person-with-ais-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine seeing the Ancients in Person&#8211; with AIs Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The problem I have with the following is they made the mistake of giving various of these icons perfect teeth, and we know from skeletal remains that was not the case with even the most elite Egyptians, Romans, Greeks.\u00a0 Even with 18th century folks like Ben Franklin or George Washington,\u00a0 George had iron dentures!!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Historical Icons Brought Back to Life using AI\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YPjLycUANZs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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