{"id":22355,"date":"2015-10-12T05:55:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T09:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=22355"},"modified":"2015-10-11T17:21:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T21:21:48","slug":"what-st-paul-and-others-looked-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2015\/10\/what-st-paul-and-others-looked-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What St. Paul (and others) looked like?"},"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>A Spanish site linked to my post of long ago on the forensic research that reconstructed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/12\/what-st-nicholas-a-k-a-santa-claus-actually-looked-like\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">what St. Nicholas looked like<\/a>.\u00a0 The site includes renditions (unfortunately without links to the original sources) of nine other historical figures who received the same treatment, including Copernicus, Dante, Bach, and Richard III.<\/p>\n<p>Especially striking was the reconstruction of the appearance of King Tutankhaten, the young Pharaoh whose looks reflect the messed-up genetics of sister marriage, as often practiced in the ancient Egyptian royal line, including <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tutankhamun\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tut\u2019s parents<\/a>.\u00a0 But there is also a reconstruction of one of his father\u2019s other wives, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nefertiti\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Queen Nefertiti, <\/a>who is revealed to have been a stunning beauty.<\/p>\n<div id=\"premium-content\">\n<p>But the most interesting reconstruction is that of the Apostle Paul, based on bones recovered at a site where he was said to have been buried as tallied with portrayals in early iconography. See St. Paul after the jump.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upsocl.com\/creatividad\/10-ejemplos-de-como-lucian-algunos-de-los-personajes-mas-famosos-de-la-historia\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">10 ejemplos de c\u00f3mo luc\u00edan algunos de los personajes m\u00e1s famosos de la historia | Upsocl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>7. Pablo de Tarso<\/p>\n<p>El a\u00f1o 2009 se llev\u00f3 a cabo una investigaci\u00f3n de un sarc\u00f3fago del siglo I, ubicado en el altar de un templo romano. Se cree que los restos encontrados all\u00ed son de San Pablo\u2026 un hombre delgado.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GOOGLE TRANSLATE<\/a> VERSION:<br>\nThe year 2009 was an investigation of a first-century tomb , located on the altar of a Roman temple. It is believed that the remains found there are of San Pablo \u2026 a thin man.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy alignnone wp-image-269031 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/577905-R3L8T8D-650-5.jpg\" alt=\"577905-R3L8T8D-650-5\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" data-lazy-type=\"image\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.upsocl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/577905-R3L8T8D-650-5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spanish site linked to my post of long ago on the forensic research that reconstructed what St. Nicholas looked like.\u00a0 The site includes renditions (unfortunately without links to the original sources) of nine other historical figures who received the same treatment, including Copernicus, Dante, Bach, and Richard III. 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