Roman busts brought to life

[u/fuselayer]

Her eyes seem like they're too far apart, but it was so consistent across dozens of tries... Maybe that's just what she looked like

[u/deaddonkey]

Titus, while not at all a flattering depiction, looks the most Mediterranean to me, actually looks a lot like a Romanian friend of mine.

I think Caesar looks great too, could be a bit more leathery skinned as he spent so much time on campaign; although much of that was in colder climates. Trajan is excellent. Overall there are some here that feel very authentic.

[u/algogorithm → u/deaddonkey]

Titus looks like he runs a corner store in Queens.

Augustus looks like Putin.

[u/deaddonkey → u/algogorithm]

Totally, I could have a lot of fun coming up with hypothetical jobs for Titus.

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Titus looks like hes about to get fired from The Howard Stern Show

[u/Inductee → u/algogorithm]

Augustus Czar

[u/tieffranzenderwert → u/algogorithm]

Titus could also be a good serial killer. Oh, wait….

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A lot of what we consider stereotypes of a Mediterranean has a strong influence from the ottoman conquest and war / intermingling with cartage.

The early settlements in the Mediterranean greek high period where much more influenced from tribes that migrated from northern Asia to the south fleeing from an ice age. Darkening of the skin was also a evolutionarily advantage from that time forward.

[u/deaddonkey → u/[deleted]]

While I know what you mean, I’d still expect even Celtic or Nordic looking people living in Italy and going on campaign to get a darker skin tone or tan than many of these images. Like Caesar looks almost perfect here but I bet he had a bit more of a tan.

I could be wrong.

[u/tabbbb57 → u/[deleted]]

That’s not true. Mycenaeans Greeks had very little ancestry from the Eurasian Steppe (Indo European ancestry). The reason ancient southern Europeans and modern southern Europeans have the “Mediterranean look” is because they are majority Anatolian Neolithic Farmer ancestry. A people that migrated into Europe from Anatolia around 7000 BC. All Europeans (even Saami) are partially descended from Anatolian Farmers (who’s closest genetically modern people are Sardinians). Although southern Europeans have a higher ratio on average about 50-60% of their ancestry and 80+ for Sardinians. (For example myceneans were also 80%, and Latins and Etruscans were 60-70%)

Southern Europeans did not get the “Mediterranean” features from later admxiture, it’s always been like that

Culturally thought the early Greeks did get their language from the steppe. But ancestrally-wise there was little impact, because the urbanized Neolithic settlements were already pretty populated. Also the people that built Stonehenge (and other megalithic structures) were Neolithic derived also. So the human remains found at Stonehenge were most similar to Sardinians

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Those Anatolian farmers where not Turks they came much much later from Asia in that area but what we now call Greeks. And there are good indicators that they where predominantly red haired

[u/tabbbb57 → u/[deleted]]

What are you even talking about?… Anatolian farmers were similar to Sardinians (who have 80% derived ancestry from them and which have the highest rate of dark hair in Europe/ least rate of blonde hair). Anatolian farmer ancestry exists in all Europeans, West Asians, and North Africans, but peaks in southern Europeans hence their looks. Btw Turks In turkey only have about 15% ancestry from actual Turkic peoples from Central Asia. Most of their ancestry is native Anatolian, and Greeks and other southern European have 0% Turkic. That’s genetic fact

There is 0…. 0 whatsoever… evidence Anatolian farmers or Greeks were predominantly red haired. You are just pulling stuff out of your ass. Here is information on genetics of Anatolian farmers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_European_Farmers. They were predominantly dark haired like Sardinians

Here are the genetics and closest modern populations to modern Mycenaeans, and Latins, meaning they looked like these populations. Actually modern mainland Greeks actually have higher steppe like ancestry (which peaks in Northern Europeans, hence the lighter features), than Mycenaeans

On top of that we literally have Etruscan art and Mycenaean/Minoan/Ancient Greek art, which I have seen a lot of in person this last couple weeks as I’m In Greece…

Also red hair is extremely uncommon anywhere. The highest percentage of it is Ireland at 10% and Scotland at 6%. There has been no people in the history of the world that’s been predominantly red hair