🛕 Face-Off at Keeladi: How 2,500-Year-Old Tamil Skulls Triggered a National Identity Crisis...
Archaeology Meets Algorithm, and Everyone Becomes an Expert in Craniometrics By our special correspondent in WTFland: Where every skull has a backstory and every comment section a civil war 👁️🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. WTF? Two ancient Tamil skulls got a makeover. And the internet lost its collective mind. That’s right. A 2,500-year-old civilization near Madurai — the Keeladi site — just got two digital faces thanks to Liverpool’s Face Lab and Madurai Kamaraj University’s archaeology nerds. The reconstructed men? South Indian features, with hints of West Eurasian and Austro-Asiatic ancestry. No sooner were the images released than comments exploded across every platform faster than an angry WhatsApp forward group discovering the word "Dravidian." Half the internet thinks these skulls are proof of Tamil supremacy. The other half thinks it’s all a North-vs-Sou...