Learning from human remains: Seianti's skeleton - for iPad/Mac/PC

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How much can we learn from an entombed skeleton? This album introduces Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, an Etruscan noblewoman whose remains, along with her magnificent painted sarcophagus and life-size model, provide us with an unequalled insight a Roman life around 150 BC. The Etruscans were the original inhabitants of Italy before the Romans, and Seianti’s sarcophagus and skeleton reveal a huge amount about their customs and society, as well as her own health, lifestyle and status. Medical artists and forensic scientists help complete the picture, by reconstructing her face, using anatomical science. This material forms part of The Open University course A219 Exploring the classical world.

Episode Date
Learning from human remains: Seianti’s skeleton
Oct 07, 2009
Transcript -- Learning from human remains: Seianti’s skeleton
Oct 07, 2009
The sarcophagus
Oct 07, 2009
Transcript -- The sarcophagus
Oct 07, 2009
Who was Seianti?
Oct 07, 2009
Transcript -- Who was Seianti?
Oct 07, 2009
Seianti’s skeleton
Oct 07, 2009
Transcript -- Seianti’s skeleton
Oct 07, 2009
Reconstructing Seianti
Oct 07, 2009
Transcript -- Reconstructing Seianti
Oct 07, 2009