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Even though the post is just a book advertisement, the topic of trying to unravel ancient mysteries is an interesting one. If one got serious about investigatin
by Koshkin 7y ago
Even though the post is just a book advertisement, the topic of trying to unravel ancient mysteries is an interesting one. If one got serious about investigating the cause of Alexander's death or some other seemingly cold case like this, how would they go about doing it given all the forensic instruments that we have today - perhaps even including the techniques of big data analysis and machine learning (not sure about the 'big data' part).
- boomboomsubban 7y ago>how would they go about doing it given all the forensic instruments that we have today It can't be done. For it to even be conceivable a decently preserved corpse would be necessary, and even then we would have no surefire way to confirm that it is him. If miraculously we managed those feats, many causes of death would still be hard to prove. Our best hope would be finding some copy of a currently lost text that provides more details, and even then it would be hard to tell what is true and what was propaganda from the Wars of tge Diadochi.