,,,anyway if you want to see what people actually looked like in Ancient Rome, the Fayum mummy portraits exist (and also don't whitewash and glorify a bunch of literal imperialist emperors lmao) https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2000/mummy-portraits/photo-gallery …
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Yeah that was the one that fucked me up too
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I scoffed a couple times, this one most notably
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I just don't understand what's so compelling about those boring "portraits"???
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I know this is about white washing.... but.... this one has sent mepic.twitter.com/r4xoFFUzMv
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Tbh so many of them were so funny I just focused on Septimius Severus bc that one was particularly problematic lmao
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That is fabulous
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So would a better solution to a project like this be to find a median hue of the current population of wherever these emperors were born unless clues from known sources provides evidence otherwise? There doesn’t seem to have been a large genetic shift in many former provinces.
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I have made some errors but yes, this was my approach.https://twitter.com/dvoshart/status/1288520242797465602?s=20 …
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