Peer Into the Past With Photorealistic Portraits of Roman Emperors

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[–]superjesus 7 insightful - 7 fun7 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 7 fun -  (4 children)

This is completely false. The Romans were all black. There were no white people before 1942 when Adolf Hitler was created by the devil, right before Christianity stopped being real. Everyone knows that. /s

[–]Dragonerne 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Ironically, the pictures are wrong. Wrong hair colors and wrong eye colors. Not enough blondes and grey/blue eyes.

Caracalla is especially bad becuase we have a painting of him as a kid. Completely white.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla#/media/File:Portrait_of_family_of_Septimius_Severus_-_Altes_Museum_-_Berlin_-_Germany_2017.jpg
Right kid.

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

He's pasty from being a spoilt rich kid living inside but still has obviously dark colouring. If you ever have the misfortune to watch daytime Italian TV you see this look all the time in the presenters, it's still very fashionable there.

[–]Dragonerne 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Let's be real here. He is as white as they come and the dad is tanned

It really shows how antiwhite our modern culture is when we see stuff like this.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Now this is a revisionist history I can get behind.