Ancient Roman Faces Brought to Life: Hungarian Scientists Reveal Stunning Eye Color Secrets Through DNA Analysis

Ancient Roman Faces Brought to Life: Hungarian Scientists Reveal Stunning Eye Color Secrets Through DNA Analysis

“A mirror buried alongside the body of a teenage girl, a matron laid to rest in fine clothing or a condemned individual buried face down speaks to us from the depths of history just as much as a cut mark on a thigh bone,” Balázs Mende, a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, told MTI.

Still, evidence of physical labor and starvation in their skeletons could indicate a certain social status.

“It can be concluded that most of them belonged to the lower middle class, which is the least-remembered segment of Roman society,” Vass told the AP.

By combining “scientifically verifiable findings and historical imagination,” the exhibit is as an experiment that illuminates the lives of these ancient Romans closer for today’s audiences, as the museum put it. “Things certainly did not happen this way — but they could just as easily have.”


After reading about these facial reconstructions of 16 ancient Romans, discover this 3D reconstruction of ancient Rome at its height in the fourth century C.E. Then, read about these dozens of elongated skulls found in Hungary that give clues about the fall of Rome.

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