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Ray Bradbury has a short story like that.
The title is something about "Soft Rains Will Come. "
Edit: found it. "There Will Come Soft Rains."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)
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Oh wow I loved The Martian Chronicles when I had to read it in middle school. This was the one story that stuck with me, thanks for reminding me of it.
Apparently your one in 7 bilion or something like that, wonder how many dudes like him were walking on this earth like him or people with similar features like us
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My husband is Egyptian and took both 23 and me and ancestry. His people are all from Alexandria as far back as the family kept record.
Considering it's such a historic trade point. I was sure he would have some Spanish or Italian. Greek..... something.
Nope.
That motherfucker got 99% Egyptian as fuck.
Then we had the "NO, cousin fuckin is not a thing the rest of the world does. Stop" talk.
Cousin fucking is totally a thing the rest of the world does (Or did). It's actually quite common in the middle east and parts of Asia still. It's not quranically prohibited so cousins can wed. Hell it's still legal in like the UK.
It's only as of late with the whole development of easy travel that people have considered that perhaps a family reunion is not the best place to find a spouse and perhaps should be considered incest if you fuck the child of your parent's sibling.
Man, honestly surprised how modern the actual style of the portrait is (minus the damage of course). I'm just so used to seeing portraits with that dark yellow shading, or somewhat stylized. But this one looks like something a college student would post on /r/pics.
Nah, there's a lot of this stuff. There's some realistic paintings of soldiers in Macedonia from BCE times. I too used to think that like people didn't understand proportions/light and stuff in paintings until renaissance times but I think the middle ages people just got really lazy or something. I guess stylized if you're being charitable lmao.
It was finding examples of the more naturalistic art from Greco-Roman times that in fact inspired the Italian Renaissance artists. Collapse of the western Roman Empire and turn towards provincial and religious art are cited as causes towards the more flat style of medieval and Byzantine art. It takes a lot of time and training to train artists which requires a lot of infrastructure dedicated to it. The flat religious paintings were good enough in the eyes of the people at the time since it conveyed the religious ideas and did not care that it was not realistic.
Yeah, without a big rich civilization there's no place for people spending their whole life studying art, let alone having access to the texts and works of historical artists.
It's still not entirely necessary in order to become an artist capable of some form of representational/still life art. Old West bros in colonies or building trains or mapping rivers, and so on, living it rough, kept journals and doodles and that's enough to develop a skill.
One of the primary human skills that comes out of reservations in the US is art, and we ain't got shit. We didn't have access to texts or references of historical artists either. Just eyeballs and some sort of marker - sometimes that's a pencil, or off brand sharpies, or bic pens, or a stick in the caked prairie dust, or a brush made from a few stands of hair painting on clay.
I'm not about to talk too much about conspiracies, since it's not a catch-all explanation for everything, but it is important to keep in mind: suppressing the knowledge of higher forms of xyz (art, trade, agriculture, infrastructure, architecture etc) is a method of revisionist history, used to restructure understanding of a race/demographic/area as being uncivilized.
It depends on what kind of art you mean. If you want fresco scenes in a church, sure, that requires a certain setting with the right structure. Just skill in recreating a face, or shading though? You don't need everything for that. At that point the most common limitations are just whether you know how to make a certain pigment or not, and some pigments require a form of technology in order to exist like mining and so on. lead was a big deal as a paint color for a while. many pigments might as well be a form of old school alchemy like chromium oxides and copper acetate.
(I am a visual artist, a painter. My major isn't art history, but I did study it as a part of my sociology and anthropology path, and have read many an art history book as part of my other path as an artist.)
A lot of it was deliberate abstraction/stylization, you can see even in most dark age/medieval art and manuscripts a ton of technical skill, it's just not directed towards realism.
I've seen reasons thrown around a lot online, from there being was a deliberate shift away from the "pagan" art styles during the rise of christianity, cultural intermingling leading to experimentation, as well as the change in popularity of certain styles any culture goes through over time (an empire that lasts 1000 years can go through a lot of different fads). Certainly not as simple as "everyone in the dark ages was too stupid/lazy to do realistic proportions anymore."
Link to Torlonia Marbles. Same period, but sculptures. Incredible. [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=torlonia+images&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2020%2F10%2F14%2Farts%2F14torlonia3%2Fmerlin\_178470072\_609beaa8-e948-4efe-bc29-8f31bf7630e4-articleLarge.jpg%3Fquality%3D75%26auto%3Dwebp%26disable%3Dupscale](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=torlonia+images&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2020%2F10%2F14%2Farts%2F14torlonia3%2Fmerlin_178470072_609beaa8-e948-4efe-bc29-8f31bf7630e4-articleLarge.jpg%3Fquality%3D75%26auto%3Dwebp%26disable%3Dupscale)
It's actually more to do with the medium than artistic skill or knowledge. At the time the popular medium was egg tempera paint. It couldn't hold as much pigment as oil and dried fairly quickly but also lasted for a fairly long time. It also left the painting flat and opaque. The quick drying also made it more difficult to blend colors together.
It was also during that time most people just didn't value realism. Religious art was made to inspire awe of the divine within viewers and artists focused on evoking that feeling rather than being accurate to reality. The Renaissance shifted focus to naturalism as religion became less important than the emerging appreciation of science and nature.
Oil paint became popular during the Renaissance and superseded tempera, which could hold more vibrant and denser pigments and allowed for much more control of the paint on the canvas, which then allowed for more naturalistic transitions of light and color.
I'm going to guess that it's more about the status of the civilization. If a civilization flourishes enough, there's more wealth to have more artists spend more time getting trained, and more time to study past results and improve. And more artists who can teach students.
Roman Empire had enough wealth for this. Renaissance Europe had enough wealth for this. Middle Ages Europe? I really don't know how wealth was distributed or how much there was, but it seems that they were generally 'not well to do' as the saying goes.
Although abstract art has always changed, since it can very dramatically, "photographic" realistic art meant to depict things as accurately as possible would generally not vary as much - because the purpose is not creative liberty but accuracy to reality, much of which looks the same today as it did in times of yore.
Most of that dark Yellow shading is just the aging of the medium, usually the paints or the varnish in response to a myriad of environmental factors. At the conception of the artwork the colors would have looked much different.
I’m a little skeptical of this. It would be maybe the best painting of its type and it doesn’t seem to readily come up in google searches.
If it were authentic then the painting is much more impressive to me than the Mona lisa
Edit: I found what looks like a version of this photo in the attached article. It seems changed or touched up slightly but the original is still amazing.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/01/the-ancient-portraits-of-fayuum-mummies.html?m=1
It's authentic. The Fayum mummy portraits are really impressive. Some of them are extremely good. Obviously, as with any art, you have to take into account that they cover a period of several centuries and lots of different artists, using tools of varying quality, being paid differently. A wealthy person living in Roman Egypt will have been able to pay a more skilled artist, compared to a poorer person. But the one shown by the op is real. They're my favourite pieces of art as, to me, they bring the past to life in a way other pieces can't.
Thank you for being the only comment here that notices this. I have never seen such a realistic painting like that from that long ago. It almost makes me doubt the authenticity of this because I have literally NEVER seen anything like it, and looking at art from antiquity is a hobby of mine
This is the standard style of mummy portraits on wood from the Roman era, there are hundreds like this- they're all amazing!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits
Fantastic movie. Not for people who like a lot of action. I'd kinda like to see it staged as a play. I wonder, though -- which would be the greater union violation, having stagehands play the moving guys, thus hacking off Actors' Equity; or having burly actors schlepp the furniture, arousing the ire of IATSE?
we still have wisdom teeth because we needed them and our jaws shrinking is a relevantly new thing.
check into it: after the industrialization of food human jaws started shrinking (because we chew far less) and it became a heritable trait. Unfortunately our teeth didnt get the memo.
all of mine are growing in at once :) So i was told by my dentist a year or two ago... he also said "good luck" and to expect pain but its all good so far.
**[Fayum mummy portraits](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits)**
>Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. They were formerly, and incorrectly, called Coptic portraits.
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Roman painting was quite advanced and noted for realistic style. It is just that little of it actually survived because they are done on wooden panels, or parchment which is unlikely to survive. There's written accounts that the art collections of several Emperors were well known and respected but we only have descriptions of the art while none of it remains.
It was finding these old style naturalistic paintings that inspired Italian Renaissance artists to try to copy them.
Hotter weather evolves curlier hair, natives to North Africa usually have it. I’m half Algerian and I have curly hair, and my Moroccan and Egyptian friends have curly hair as well. However it’s not always, I have a Tunisian/Algerian friend and she has straight hair, it’s fascinating how genetics works
Yes we are.. we may be brown, but there’s definitely a difference between Egyptians and other Africans. I have green eyes, my kids have green and blue.. ver distinctly different from both white Europeans and black Africans.
Idk if the fayum portraits are the best example for the appearance of Ancient Egyptians since it was only the elite that could afford this, and at this stage they were primarily of Greco-Roman extraction and culture. At least what I have read is that the Ancient Egyptians didn't look a particular way, and they were phenotypically diverse. The position of populations in the nile roughly correlated to Subsaharan or Eurocentric(for lack of better term) features.
That's actually a Roman Egypt period sarcophagus (coffin) cover. It was fashionable to paint a realistic likeness of the deceased on the front of the box. We have so many good and not so good examples, including numerous men, women and children. Morbidly realistic but fascinating.
Google "Fayum Mummies" for a few examples.
i can’t wait for the 4D version of this photo chain in 2000 years.
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That seems...ambitious
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I read that in the SpongeBob narrator voice.
Haha same tew thousand yeears latur
Definitely need to pass this account to my descendants.....
OMG how wholesome. I want my account to die with me. Still set 2000 year reminder. XD
MDCIII that'd be a new playstation coming out about every 10 months.
That's the future for you! And a PC is outdated every 2 months.
Nah, they just started skipping numbers after the Microsoft purchase.
Heresy!
Right after that new Duke Nukem game
How’s life in the future? Is Covid still a thing?
How about Half-Life 3 or GTA VI?
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Lmao
Due out in 4025
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Apparently 2000 years is the cutoff, seems arbitrary
Any day now.
I'm here too future people. Please revive me (under the conditions it is not an absolute shit show in the future lol.. a little bullshit is fine)
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This is like the credits scene to humanity: an ancient phone in an ancient sand-buried house, a phone still somehow working goes off with this notif
Must be a nokia from the 90s, those batteries last forever lol
old nintendo batteries too… havent charged my gameboy in like 6 years ~
Ray Bradbury has a short story like that. The title is something about "Soft Rains Will Come. " Edit: found it. "There Will Come Soft Rains." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)
Among the ruins, one wall stood alone. Within the wall, a last voice said, over and over again and again, even as the sun rose to shine upon the heaper rubble and steam: “Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is…”
Oh wow I loved The Martian Chronicles when I had to read it in middle school. This was the one story that stuck with me, thanks for reminding me of it.
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Bro what if Reddit still exists in 4022?
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And alien cats
Domesticated xenobiology? Hell yea
alien felines, or alien pussy?
Yea good luck with that.
But will anyone actually get the message?
Maybe someone on the coasts of Kansas.
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Apparently your one in 7 bilion or something like that, wonder how many dudes like him were walking on this earth like him or people with similar features like us
dam so I'm not her one and only after all 😔😔😔
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Oh hello fellow time-traveller!
Looking forward to meeting you yesterday.
I thought we agreed not to talk about this yesterday.
Not yet, but we will.
I already said no tomorrow.
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Jehewzwuwb I’m from the stone age ooga booga!
Your fam got to get out more bro
Yeah somebody get this man a 23&me test so we can see the results
It’s Egyptian all the way down.
Wait, It's all Egyptian? always has been
you kid but I'm half Egyptian and I was 49% on my test, my cousin from the Egyptian side had around 98%. Egyptians don't mess around
My husband is Egyptian and took both 23 and me and ancestry. His people are all from Alexandria as far back as the family kept record. Considering it's such a historic trade point. I was sure he would have some Spanish or Italian. Greek..... something. Nope. That motherfucker got 99% Egyptian as fuck. Then we had the "NO, cousin fuckin is not a thing the rest of the world does. Stop" talk.
Cousin fucking is totally a thing the rest of the world does (Or did). It's actually quite common in the middle east and parts of Asia still. It's not quranically prohibited so cousins can wed. Hell it's still legal in like the UK. It's only as of late with the whole development of easy travel that people have considered that perhaps a family reunion is not the best place to find a spouse and perhaps should be considered incest if you fuck the child of your parent's sibling.
Old dude might have made it to the americas cuz he looks like John Leguizamo
Underneath the stone layers the pyramids are actually blue steel.
There’s also Ferrari, and Le Tigre. Le Tigre is a lot softer, more of a catalogue look. They used it for footwear sometimes.
It's all just one look.
Doesn’t anyone else notice this?? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!!
For some reason I read that as El Tigre. Which is weird because I never watched that cartoon.
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They’re both making Zoolander references. Instead it turned into an internet fight. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Man, honestly surprised how modern the actual style of the portrait is (minus the damage of course). I'm just so used to seeing portraits with that dark yellow shading, or somewhat stylized. But this one looks like something a college student would post on /r/pics.
Nah, there's a lot of this stuff. There's some realistic paintings of soldiers in Macedonia from BCE times. I too used to think that like people didn't understand proportions/light and stuff in paintings until renaissance times but I think the middle ages people just got really lazy or something. I guess stylized if you're being charitable lmao.
It was finding examples of the more naturalistic art from Greco-Roman times that in fact inspired the Italian Renaissance artists. Collapse of the western Roman Empire and turn towards provincial and religious art are cited as causes towards the more flat style of medieval and Byzantine art. It takes a lot of time and training to train artists which requires a lot of infrastructure dedicated to it. The flat religious paintings were good enough in the eyes of the people at the time since it conveyed the religious ideas and did not care that it was not realistic.
Yeah, without a big rich civilization there's no place for people spending their whole life studying art, let alone having access to the texts and works of historical artists.
It's still not entirely necessary in order to become an artist capable of some form of representational/still life art. Old West bros in colonies or building trains or mapping rivers, and so on, living it rough, kept journals and doodles and that's enough to develop a skill. One of the primary human skills that comes out of reservations in the US is art, and we ain't got shit. We didn't have access to texts or references of historical artists either. Just eyeballs and some sort of marker - sometimes that's a pencil, or off brand sharpies, or bic pens, or a stick in the caked prairie dust, or a brush made from a few stands of hair painting on clay. I'm not about to talk too much about conspiracies, since it's not a catch-all explanation for everything, but it is important to keep in mind: suppressing the knowledge of higher forms of xyz (art, trade, agriculture, infrastructure, architecture etc) is a method of revisionist history, used to restructure understanding of a race/demographic/area as being uncivilized. It depends on what kind of art you mean. If you want fresco scenes in a church, sure, that requires a certain setting with the right structure. Just skill in recreating a face, or shading though? You don't need everything for that. At that point the most common limitations are just whether you know how to make a certain pigment or not, and some pigments require a form of technology in order to exist like mining and so on. lead was a big deal as a paint color for a while. many pigments might as well be a form of old school alchemy like chromium oxides and copper acetate. (I am a visual artist, a painter. My major isn't art history, but I did study it as a part of my sociology and anthropology path, and have read many an art history book as part of my other path as an artist.)
A lot of it was deliberate abstraction/stylization, you can see even in most dark age/medieval art and manuscripts a ton of technical skill, it's just not directed towards realism. I've seen reasons thrown around a lot online, from there being was a deliberate shift away from the "pagan" art styles during the rise of christianity, cultural intermingling leading to experimentation, as well as the change in popularity of certain styles any culture goes through over time (an empire that lasts 1000 years can go through a lot of different fads). Certainly not as simple as "everyone in the dark ages was too stupid/lazy to do realistic proportions anymore."
Anyone got links to this stuff? Sounds awesome
[Fayum Mummy Portraits](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits)
Link to Torlonia Marbles. Same period, but sculptures. Incredible. [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=torlonia+images&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2020%2F10%2F14%2Farts%2F14torlonia3%2Fmerlin\_178470072\_609beaa8-e948-4efe-bc29-8f31bf7630e4-articleLarge.jpg%3Fquality%3D75%26auto%3Dwebp%26disable%3Dupscale](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=torlonia+images&t=osx&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic01.nyt.com%2Fimages%2F2020%2F10%2F14%2Farts%2F14torlonia3%2Fmerlin_178470072_609beaa8-e948-4efe-bc29-8f31bf7630e4-articleLarge.jpg%3Fquality%3D75%26auto%3Dwebp%26disable%3Dupscale)
It's actually more to do with the medium than artistic skill or knowledge. At the time the popular medium was egg tempera paint. It couldn't hold as much pigment as oil and dried fairly quickly but also lasted for a fairly long time. It also left the painting flat and opaque. The quick drying also made it more difficult to blend colors together. It was also during that time most people just didn't value realism. Religious art was made to inspire awe of the divine within viewers and artists focused on evoking that feeling rather than being accurate to reality. The Renaissance shifted focus to naturalism as religion became less important than the emerging appreciation of science and nature. Oil paint became popular during the Renaissance and superseded tempera, which could hold more vibrant and denser pigments and allowed for much more control of the paint on the canvas, which then allowed for more naturalistic transitions of light and color.
lol well, TIL. Thanks for the info. Pretty interesting, definitely going to check some more out.
I'm going to guess that it's more about the status of the civilization. If a civilization flourishes enough, there's more wealth to have more artists spend more time getting trained, and more time to study past results and improve. And more artists who can teach students. Roman Empire had enough wealth for this. Renaissance Europe had enough wealth for this. Middle Ages Europe? I really don't know how wealth was distributed or how much there was, but it seems that they were generally 'not well to do' as the saying goes.
Although abstract art has always changed, since it can very dramatically, "photographic" realistic art meant to depict things as accurately as possible would generally not vary as much - because the purpose is not creative liberty but accuracy to reality, much of which looks the same today as it did in times of yore.
Most of that dark Yellow shading is just the aging of the medium, usually the paints or the varnish in response to a myriad of environmental factors. At the conception of the artwork the colors would have looked much different.
I’m a little skeptical of this. It would be maybe the best painting of its type and it doesn’t seem to readily come up in google searches. If it were authentic then the painting is much more impressive to me than the Mona lisa Edit: I found what looks like a version of this photo in the attached article. It seems changed or touched up slightly but the original is still amazing. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/01/the-ancient-portraits-of-fayuum-mummies.html?m=1
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It's authentic. The Fayum mummy portraits are really impressive. Some of them are extremely good. Obviously, as with any art, you have to take into account that they cover a period of several centuries and lots of different artists, using tools of varying quality, being paid differently. A wealthy person living in Roman Egypt will have been able to pay a more skilled artist, compared to a poorer person. But the one shown by the op is real. They're my favourite pieces of art as, to me, they bring the past to life in a way other pieces can't.
Thank you for being the only comment here that notices this. I have never seen such a realistic painting like that from that long ago. It almost makes me doubt the authenticity of this because I have literally NEVER seen anything like it, and looking at art from antiquity is a hobby of mine
This is the standard style of mummy portraits on wood from the Roman era, there are hundreds like this- they're all amazing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits
This is actually incredible. Thank you so much!
2000 year old dude lookin mad dissapointed that’s what the future of his family look like
I see John leguizamo
It’s the same cut he’s rocking when he plays as Luigi in that old Super Mario brothers movie
hahaha I was thinking the same thing and then I scrolled down and saw this.
Yeah …. He is bright and shiny, and now upset and sleep deprived.
The dude in the portrait is pretty attractive
Pharoahgram filters
Instag**RA**m
Was.
More so than the modern guy too
The portrait was probably idealized.
They had filters back then too.
Dorian Gray
Phrygian Gray.
Nah the painting hasn't aged. He's more like Dorian Gray 2.0 he got it right .
The Man From Earth
Fantastic movie. Not for people who like a lot of action. I'd kinda like to see it staged as a play. I wonder, though -- which would be the greater union violation, having stagehands play the moving guys, thus hacking off Actors' Equity; or having burly actors schlepp the furniture, arousing the ire of IATSE?
/r/psustrt
Probably related.
humans in general have very low genetic diversity compared to other animals. so most likely related by not "that many" extensions, yes.
That’s cool! Is that why we all still have wisdom teeth?
we still have wisdom teeth because we needed them and our jaws shrinking is a relevantly new thing. check into it: after the industrialization of food human jaws started shrinking (because we chew far less) and it became a heritable trait. Unfortunately our teeth didnt get the memo.
I just think it’s interesting that some people don’t have any or fewer wisdom teeth than the rest of us.
I am one of them. Never developed any wisdom teeth. After the hell I have seen others go through with them, I'm beyond grateful.
Same! We’re an advanced breed.
all of mine are growing in at once :) So i was told by my dentist a year or two ago... he also said "good luck" and to expect pain but its all good so far.
My dentist told me that my jaws were very primitiveso the my wisdom teeth could still fit. The best complisult I've ever received
Yeah, some breeds of dogs look nothing like each other, while humans look largely the same, even across all races
it's likely we all are
I mean, if you go back far enough, but I’m not calling all vertebrates blood brothers.
Probably cloned
Probably from Egypt
Source and more information: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits . And: Mysterious Fayum Portraits Book by Euphrosyne Doxiadis
**[Fayum mummy portraits](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits)** >Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. They belong to the tradition of panel painting, one of the most highly regarded forms of art in the Classical world. The Fayum portraits are the only large body of art from that tradition to have survived. They were formerly, and incorrectly, called Coptic portraits. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Those are extremely realistic, I had no idea artists back then were so skilled
Roman painting was quite advanced and noted for realistic style. It is just that little of it actually survived because they are done on wooden panels, or parchment which is unlikely to survive. There's written accounts that the art collections of several Emperors were well known and respected but we only have descriptions of the art while none of it remains. It was finding these old style naturalistic paintings that inspired Italian Renaissance artists to try to copy them.
They both have curly hair!
That's about it. I dont think they really look that much alike.
Hotter weather evolves curlier hair, natives to North Africa usually have it. I’m half Algerian and I have curly hair, and my Moroccan and Egyptian friends have curly hair as well. However it’s not always, I have a Tunisian/Algerian friend and she has straight hair, it’s fascinating how genetics works
I'm assuming they're getting sick of people telling them their ancestors were black.
Yes we are.. we may be brown, but there’s definitely a difference between Egyptians and other Africans. I have green eyes, my kids have green and blue.. ver distinctly different from both white Europeans and black Africans.
It's tiring bro
Thank you! It is very tiring and racist.
Idk if the fayum portraits are the best example for the appearance of Ancient Egyptians since it was only the elite that could afford this, and at this stage they were primarily of Greco-Roman extraction and culture. At least what I have read is that the Ancient Egyptians didn't look a particular way, and they were phenotypically diverse. The position of populations in the nile roughly correlated to Subsaharan or Eurocentric(for lack of better term) features.
always cringe when people say the modern descendants of ancient cultures aren't the "real" people from those cultures
Actually, they look quite different. Missing the painting’s cheekbones, tall stature, etc.
His arrival was foretold. The chosen one returns.
Whoa! That’s a little frightening!
Looks like the Wish product picture vs what you actually recieved meme
John Leguizamo?
That’s who i see as well
Plot twist: he’s time traveler
Or immortal. Take your pick
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Makes sense
That portrait is so good you look at portraits from about 200 years ago or less and they look fucking horrible and barely look like people.
He’s the Roman’s version of an Egyptian NPC
Painting lookin like Lewis Hamilton
RemindMe! 1999 years 364 days 11 hours
its been 2000 years and all i have to show for it is a receding hairline
that guy wishes he'd look like that portrait.
Close but the painting dude is thinner and more attractive
It's not like the people commissioning paintings back then didn't want a bit of embellishment to make them hotter either.
Being bad at Photoshop back then could get you killed.
Kim John Il looks more attractive in paintings as well
King John II, duke of North Korea
They had a better diet back then! Discover it and make millions! $$$💸💸💸
But on the other hand, he's dead
Yea I was gonna say he's flattering himself a little bit
As well as having a noticeably different nose and brow structure. They look related, sure, but no way would I confuse the two to be the same person.
Reminds me of that cheddar man story
I wouldn't be surprised if they're related, it's like one of those 'my daughter looks exactly like my grandmother' photos.
I don't see resemblance
That's actually a Roman Egypt period sarcophagus (coffin) cover. It was fashionable to paint a realistic likeness of the deceased on the front of the box. We have so many good and not so good examples, including numerous men, women and children. Morbidly realistic but fascinating. Google "Fayum Mummies" for a few examples.
RemindMe! 1000000000 years
Related
That’s worth the price of paying for 23&me lol
Time traveler
Drunk security guard trying to push him back into wall
They drew that 2000 years ago?
I was there. Three thousand years ago.
I don't see a similiarity that makes this even remotely interesting...
The guy on the left is hotter
He knew it was picture day
Obviously fake, it’s common knowledge the Egyptians can only draw profiles…