Scientists have managed to reconstruct what an 11-year-old Athenian girl looked like at the time of her death in 430 BCE, based on the intact skull and teeth that were found in a mass grave in 1995.

And here’s how we know that I’m a political theorist:

When I saw this story, the first thing I thought was, “Aw, if she hadn’t contracted typhoid fever — and if she’d been a boy — here’s what one of Socrates’ jurors looked like!”

Full story here (HT: Tim Carmody).