2nd Century Roman Emperors | Realistic Face Reconstruction Using AI and Photoshop

[@kaloarepo288]

There was an era in Roman history when they changed emperors so frequently that the sculptors couldn't keep up with their portraits -so they would just do a standard body sculpture and add a new head when it was needed.

[@RedOctober_]

crisis of the third century for ya

[@biancahotca3244]

How do you know?

[@ladythalia227]

I remember reading about it too when I studied antiquity at university. Apparently at was a well known practice.

[@sonnycheeba4536]

It’s weird they all resemble...so why are they say adopted??..they didn’t do out of Wedlock then??? Anyone

[@hansmahr8627]

Some of them were related, like the Severan dynasty. But for the most part they weren't. The Romans weren't as obsessed with bloodlines as later rulers, adoption was totally normal and accepted.

[@jasonmorgan7844]

Marcus Aurelius looks like Sir Alec Guinness who played him in the film "Fall of the Roman Empire". Fascinating.

[@TheAurelianProject]

That’s how you know it’s a good cast

[@barbaraskinner4924]

I thought that too. It was the same when he played Charles the first in a film

[@jasonmorgan7844]

@@barbaraskinner4924 Your so right Barbara, alongside Richard Harris who played the title role in the film "Cromwell". Sir Alec Guinness really was a phenomenal actor who wore his characters well.

[@mmaphilosophy]

Yes he does. Wowwwwww

[@369mfkzt2]

Marco Aurélio*

[@neoprower777]

Me: I really need to sleep KZbin: *real faces of roman emperors* Me: :0

[@lesant7659]

Exactly

[@iaroslavd.916]

🤣

[@miklu26]

😅

[@Joeclaw]

Wtf why us that me lit-rally right now

[@aewhatever]

Oddly enough I was on my way to bed when I saw this

[@superdavidss]

In Spain and Italy, you see lots of dudes like the emperors every day.

[@Canev821]

My brothers look like them

[@GenosGlory]

@@ahippy8972 Actually they are just like were portayed here. Italians in in the North Rome are ghostly white.In Italy Sun is heavy in most parts of Italy and people can get a bit bronze .

[@mattllaves]

@@ahippy8972 those were colored based on the paint still left on the statues, septimus severus and caracalla were north africans and as such, have a darker complexion

[@liviu09hjoe]

Same in Romania

[@gianlucarossi5672]

@@GenosGlory It's really crazy how many trolls or ignorant folks are obsessed with Italians or other Southern Europeans being brown- skinned. They always complain about "too white" looking Romans. Actually, you find even pale Southern Italians, too. The thing is, that the recreated Roman emperors here don't look "ghostly white" but have A normal Southern European skin tone. Besides, some of the native Roman emperors were blue- eyed with blondish or reddish hair.

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Oh yeah, Marcus Aurelius looks exactly as I expected. Like someone who is about to drop a bomb of wisdom

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Gettin some Nero vibes from Lucius verus. Neckbeard/10

[@TOFKAS01]

He indeed looks a bit like Alec Guiness who played Marcus in an old movie....

[@theunraveler]

"Dont look at e-girls. Tits are temporary. Stoic virtues echoes in eternity!"

[@notwilling7375]

@@theunraveler LOL

[@admontblanc]

Looks like a freaking greek philosopher about to drop some fact of mathematics or logic.

[@tron3entertainment]

The recreations themselves are incredible. But the animation is what keeps me coming back.

[@deborahkelly1489]

Me too. It’s mesmerizing and a bit sobering. We are looking at people that lived hundreds of years ago, and they look 👀 soooo real.

[@javiUSC]

These are all false. You should refer to the akexander mosaic. Romans were much more brown with black hair.

[@ceegesange9904]

​@@javiUSC Italians still generally have black hair and tan skin.

[@ahippy8972]

@@ceegesange9904 thank you. I was just crucified for daring to say on an earlier comment that the vid should have used Italian people with olive skin . I was corrected by various people saying Marcus was pale and white. Caesar was pale white too . Why would English people determine the Roman generals and Caesar’s all look as ghostly as English people? It’s ludicrous. Go look at the comment where someone said Marcus should have deep eyes and Caesar more wrinkles. I said they should all be olive skinned and I was litterally cancelled for saying how us Latin people look.

[@ceegesange9904]

@@ahippy8972 Yeah, I was surprised to see this video depicting some of these guys with blonde hair. Roman women had to import blonde wigs from Germanic tribes or bleach their hair blonde because so few Romans had natural blonde hair. And Italians usually have thick curly hair, as can also be seen in the sculptures of these Roman emperors themselves; but the reconstructions in the video generally have thin straight hair.

[@patricelumumba2470]

Notice the change in music from upbeat to doom and gloom when commodus is shown lol.

[@robert1746]

That's the AI!

[@alexie832]

Probably due to how he died

[@alexie832]

Probably due to how he died

[@ihatepartisans.7198]

@@alexie832 He was a brutal tyrant, that’s why!

[@AnprimGang]

c*mmodus..

[@AB-kc2wm]

I have to say that Hadrian is my favorite; he was handsome , considered one of the five good emperors and I love our names...Hadrian/ Adriana 😉

[@jonasjasikevicius8780]

How about Caracalla?

[@AB-kc2wm]

@@jonasjasikevicius8780 Wow...you like Roman history as I do, Great! 👏🏻👏🏻 Both were important in different ways ; Hadrian was one of the five good ones because he was a pacifist; Caralla was a revolutionary,probably the precursor to human rights.But.. you already know that 😉

[@j.m.d.a1496]

@@AB-kc2wm hadrian was also gay. And he genocided the jews because his boyfriend died.

[@j.m.d.a1496]

@@AB-kc2wm also caracalla genocided the entierity of alexandria because of a play

[@artinaam]

@@j.m.d.a1496 he crushed the Bar Kokhba revolt years after the death of his boyfriend - those events were completely unrelated.

[@Ea-Nasir_Copper_Co]

That bust of Caracalla - the one in the upper half of the screen - is one of the greatest works of portraiture in history.

[@lemagnificent7553]

The lighting of the picture that is taken is also impressive which makes the portrait seem even more menacing

[@heliotropezzz333]

The lower bust reminds me of Justin Timberlake.

[@Gorboduc]

I'm always amused that he's been frozen in permanent anger for 1800 years.

[@biterness2323]

i just love the expression on the bust. It looks very natural and organic.

[@gymonstarfunkle136]

You can read it as intimidating, but also as energetic and combative. He doesn't strike me as a patient man so it's not surprising that he let his mum handle running the state. It seems like all he wanted to do was fight, but to do this he extended citizenship to everyone in the empire, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@bryceb.1794]

The imagery, background music, and subtle facial movements make this so haunting. But, in a good way. Love it!

[@eltoneagle8136]

I thought Commodus was killed by Russell Crowe in the arena!!🤔

[@josephp8815]

He was killed by Maximus Decimus Meridius

[@eltoneagle8136]

@@josephp8815 Strangled in the bathtub

[@barbaraskinner4924]

Commodus dressed like Hercules as he thought he was him reincarnated and statues of himself as Hercules put all over Rome which really annoyed everyone 😄😄

[@silasbishop3055]

Fightin' round the world BC

[@gregbors8364]

I am not entertained

[@andrei1971]

Forget about the roman emperors, just the textures and how real these all look is astonishing and amazing. They litterly look like someone took a video camera and recorded a real life person's face in live action. I'm amazed at both the technology and the artist skill that it takes to create these.

[@jessicamorales2555]

I think the best depiction was Caracalla. In many other cases saw a real trouble interpreting curly hair, and also young age. Very entertaining indeed.

[@pekkaollila8505]

They wore wigs.

[@johns7272]

This is the most amazing work i think ive ever seen. Truly incredible to see this

[@MysteryScoop]

Thank you so much 😀

[@Ramona_Spencer]

From all the works of art that we see in Italy (Italia), from the images, statues, studies, we have to admit that the Romans were really good looking men, handsome, with a statuary body type, strong face, intelligent look, and they had a lot of knowledge in construction, impressive architecture, law, art. The Empire had its good and bad aspects.

[@Sun-God2]

No. It's like seeing only photos of models and think that all population was good looking as the models

[@armidaesquibel2262]

That made me cry becuz I started thinking wow what kind of person they were and crying cuz they been dead so long it's like they came back to lifethis is amazing and absolutely breathtaking kool loved it

[@jaimemontejano8201]

Marcus Aurelius' beard could probably rule on it's own😂

[@AndresGomez-ws3fx]

The moment at 7:38 Caracalla face is shown and the soundtrack makes you feel is just magnificent, like the very end

[@furlan1743]

I live in Rome and if you go to a university you will se guys in their 20 or 30 looking like this. Amazing.

[@milan51259]

Imagine some 20 yo guys instead of University, were war veterans or even extremer Spartians, where combat training started when they were 7 years old. Probably every 15 year old ordinary Spartian would kick ass compared to nowadays :-I

[@spacewalker4829]

Hadrian and Caracalla were some good looking dudes.

[@cementcar9196]

Caracalla was an awful fella.

[@fkr9032]

@@cementcar9196 would still smash 10/10

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@fkr9032 smash

[@heliotropezzz333]

@@cementcar9196 Caracalla killed his brother/co ruler.

[@emarr300]

he was the son of Syrian empress Julia Domna

[@vigorelliinstitute879]

I'm totally nerding out right now.

[@melbae.1124]

They all have an incredible head of hair!

[@doconfriends]

@Melba E you mean wigs 😂😂😂

[@KimberlyLetsGo]

I'm sure the full head of hair was to flatter the emperor when the bust was carved.

[@peachbellini2615]

@@KimberlyLetsGo .. isn't that funny?! How we'll never know what people throughout history *really* looked like?! For example.. years ago there was an accurate rendering of Helen of Troy ..that wouldn't have launched a matchbox car let alone a thousand ships ..hahaha.. no disrespect intended.. I also watched something else explaining that Napoleon wasn't short.. he was the exact average height for men in his era!

[@TM-fu2we]

@@peachbellini2615 This is true. It was British propaganda to belittle him (no pun intended).

[@pearlvision7156]

Good climate and food:)

[@Goldenstu]

I wish many world heads of state would grow their beards, as the Spartans said " it adds beauty to a comely face and terror to an ugly one,plus its free!"

[@Vor567tez]

"Plus it's free" 🤣🤣 👏👏

[@mohammadrezaazadi1208]

As an Iranian, strongly disagree (((:

[@walterweiss7124]

nwo heads look as they look: ugly

[@Wagmiallday]

TED CRUZ lol

[@dawicked2k8]

lmao Terror? maybe in fucking Ancient Rome lol, now a days a beard just makes you look older, a fucking old man

[@yizhouxiao4477]

I expected more from Hadrian, but always good to saw an emperor smiling at you!

[@rzrusu7173]

The first times these men blink and look around in thousands of years. Truly amazing time to be alive!

[@reginaromsey]

Marcus Aurelius particularly looks right. They all look like young men thanks to lack of age wrinkles in the stone. Interesting in the slight differences of hair and beard make a difference.

[@carolelerman9686]

This was just after their hair cuts.

[@Kettenring]

4:48 Funny, Commodus doesn't look anything like Joaquin Phoenix.

[@patrimill7]

He looks more like Sylvester Stallone.....lol

[@Alex-oo9dx]

@@patrimill7 No, He doesn't.

[@prosimian]

Joaquin Phoenix nowadays, with the full beard and weight, look much closer.

[@julez2106]

This is sublime! When you don't have photographs or videos of people, the humanity is lost more often than not and they seem so alien, despite being no less different than you and I. Bringing them to life allows us feeling close and connected to people, who took their last breath thousands of years ago🙌🏼

[@Dan_Ben_Michael]

That was amazing! This brings history alive. I thoroughly enjoy these art projects.

[@MarjorainMD]

My first tour of Rome in 2004 consisted in visiting Caracalla’s baths, amongst many other historical sites, it was quite the eerie experience (for me anyway), I was lost on my own thoughts as I walked through its walls thinking of the people who were murdered within, spooky, but worth it if you love history as I do.

[@swolejeezy2603]

Love how the music got dark as soon as Commodus showed up

[@mathis8007]

He kinda had to die, because he was a madman

[@robertburns1220]

His reign spelt doom for the entire Roman Empire. He was a recluse for most of his reign and spent the last few years blowing the nation's treasury on gladiatorial games (which he would participate in on occasion). Needless to say, he wasn't popular and he was strangled right after he finished a fight, not stabbed in the throat by Maximus unfortunately (hey, it's still a great movie).

[@charlottebruce979]

Well if Hadrian looked liked that he could have conquered me!!

[@tranquilitytranquility1407]

Me too, but he probably wouldn’t have been interested! Like Trajan before him, he was into guys

[@lindar7698]

Why are all the good lookers gay?

[@charlottebruce979]

@@lindar7698 I suppose we just have to admire them like beautiful paintings, we can look but not touch. Good for other gay guys though. Lucky them!!

[@Blencathra1]

@Charlotte Bruce. Have you seen his boyfriend, Antinous? Absolutely gorgeous. They must have been a very handsome couple. But sadly it ended in a tragedy to rival Romeo & Juliet.

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

Hadrian had a fuller rounder face. I believe the creator used a face of Messi and some middle eastern person which is completely off. Not accurate

[@christophermooreworx4913]

Really awesome recreations. Very real and natural yet true to the likenesses of the statues. I like that he uses 2 sources or views for each. Commodus looks too gray for as young as he was when he died. Also, the music youve chosen is perfect. Nice work!

[@lynnepostings]

Love this amazing channel ... like being a time traveller ... absolutely mesmerizing to watch these transformations right before your eyes !

[@BedroomBull]

The Stoic Philosophy is Alive Again In Marcus.. Truly Striking.

[@Thebigbull994]

the so called good emperors have such kind and loveable faces . Love how they all look like

[@carolelerman9686]

They had a string of great rulers for a while.

[@louthegiantcookie]

Old Commodus was a pretty wacky guy. Renamed Rome after himself, and got killed by a pro wrestler.

[@Artby_Katina]

Most of them were wacky.

[@davidszabo1618]

@@Artby_Katina It was the lead cups they drank out of. It gave the wine a sweeter flavour, but at the same time affected their brains. Lead poisoning, not good for the brain.

[@Artby_Katina]

@@davidszabo1618 Yes I know the effects of lead, my father use to line acid tanks with lead for work, he was a lead burner. But I didn’t know that they drank from lead cups. It’s sad they might have been much nicer and smarter people if they used wooden goblets.

[@HeliodromusScorpio]

He was killed by a slave in his bathtub get back to school kid

[@HeliodromusScorpio]

@@davidszabo1618 And this i would call dubious logic to say the best

[@zacharding291]

Though I've been collecting coins for more than 20 years now, I still feel that sense of historical wonder every time I hold a denarius or aureus minted during the reigns of some of these emperors. (Almost as amazing is how inexpensive they are, too, with some going for as little as a few dollars.) There's something about holding a 2,000-year-old coin that might once have been held by the person whose likeness is etched onto it. Or even, in the case of coins from Tiberius's rule, might have been held by Jesus (as remote as that possibility might be.) If nothing else, coins from the Roman Empire -- and even earlier -- were definitely held by dozens or more people who lived and worked in the Roman Empire at that time. The connection to history is so tangible, it's incredible to think how many homes, coliseums, centuries and historical events these coins have passed through.

[@gabrielbock967]

The reconstruction of those facials are good.They realy look like Italians.

[@jme9811]

Just to put an example... Trajan was hispanian, from the iberian peninsula and many other generals.

[@gabrielbock967]

@@jme9811 yeah but it's very difficult to distinguish an Italian from a Hispanic.They look alike.

[@jme9811]

@@gabrielbock967 True ...

[@baggetto2940]

@@jme9811 he was of italian origins, he's also born in a city call "italica"

[@jme9811]

@@baggetto2940 The city Italica refers not to italy but modern Seville in present-day Spain, an Italic settlement in the Roman province of Hispania Baetica

[@mariejones3913]

they were more handsome then i thought! 🥰

[@alvarogill]

Remember that they were emperors so it was normal that their sculptors had to cheat a little, mainly if the dude was ugly. I also believe that one wanted his face to be reworked.

[@milan51259]

Well. What have you expected. Some of they ruled young, were rich and actually on the ultimate top of THE empire. Just imagine an handsome bad boy Caracalla being president of Italy or Spain. Politics would be sexed up and interesting again! :'-D

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

@@milan51259 Caracalla was Libyan from Libya 🇱🇾 and he has Mediterranean Sea complexion

[@R_M.P]

Wow! They all look like models for the Men's Hair Club. LOL!

[@deirdreevangelista856]

Alot of Italian people have the genes for thick ,curly hair. Good hair is an italian trait.....I'm Sicilian, Italian-american and my hair grows like crazy, was born a blonde.......people from the Mediterranean area seem to have alot of hair!

[@R_M.P]

@@deirdreevangelista856 Greetings! Nice to meet you. I am also Sicilian-Italian-American. Agreed for women, but not necessarily for men. I started going bald in my late 20's. Now I am a Hair Club client!! LOL Many relatives also have thinning hair. Boy did we get the bad hair genes!! LOL So while I think some had great hair, others likely wore wigs, OR the artists were probably under penalty of death to make the most flattering sculptures.

[@gianlucarossi5672]

@@deirdreevangelista856 The Roman emperors went to hair dressers and spent lots of time with curling and styling their hair. That being, said some had naturally curly, thick hair. Caesar, Caligula had thin hair.

[@ZephLodwick]

Sculptors deliberately made the emperors more idealistic. Hadrian, for example, had very bad acne (which is why he was the first emperor to grow a beard). This was in stark contrast to traditional Roman sculpture, which was well known for its realism. This change was first made by Augustus, who depicted himself like the god Apollo (whom the emperor imported to Rome).

[@gianlucarossi5672]

@@ZephLodwick Nah. I can post plenty of busts of Roman emperors that are not idealistic at all. The Roman sculptors depicted the faces of the emperors realistically, albeit the body like a God when they wanted portray a certain God. Augustus depicted himself with his real face but only of the young Augustus.

[@CirosKhan]

Wow!! This was amazing! Fantastic job to the artist. Please do Sassanian Kings based on coins and rock reliefs :D

[@ivorkovac303]

So cool to see this, and good on the ancient Romans for making such realistic statues that this could be done. It's a shame that more of the ancient world didn't produce the same level of realistic art.

[@MysteryScoop]

I agree, Romans and Greeks were so good with very realistic sculptures...

[@ivorkovac303]

@@MysteryScoop They were very good when it came to art and construction.

[@leaat99]

Those kind of videos are the reason I love youtube so much!

[@lukeyznaga7627]

KEEP IN MIND, that except for created "busts".....a LOT of old statues of emperors, gods, etc, DID HAVE COLOR on those stateus. They had paint!! Including Michalangelo's statues and others. But time and weather took our the pigments. ITS amazing how many times I hear "experts" and people on shows talk about the statues, but they OMIT what professional museum archeologists and historians KNOW. That a LOT of old statues at one time did have coloration, pigments. BUT MAN, you NEVER see this on TV shows or documentaries. Its simply an omission of truth in historic Art!!

[@anniebranwen4148]

Please please make more of these videos , they are wonderful thanks

[@swissmilitischristilxxii3691]

Trajan was described with black hair, if I remember well. Great vid.

[@gianlucarossi5672]

Hadrian had brown hair while Trajan had rather golden hair.

[@foxtrotoscar67]

Another band of handsome hunks to dream about! Excellent work 🌈🌷🌹❤️💕👍🎉

[@NewStarMan]

This is so incredibly interesting it's scary...

[@saveriopasseri8776]

That's incredible! It's likes bringing them back to Life!

[@juliettesophie7525]

I think the Americans here are not prepared to this truth: European are white from North to South.... I was in US and when I said I was Spanish they told me he can't be true because I am white.... I think they misunderstood south American and south European 😂

[@Ibrahim-xu6dt]

The second dynasty were Berbers north Africans

[@Ibrahim-xu6dt]

@بطرس حسان what do you wanna say ?

[@Ibrahim-xu6dt]

@بطرس حسان yes that's right , but there is a lot of interpretations to white race ,, there are those which are extremist who limits the white race into German race and there is who consider white race is the north west Europeans Germanic race + Nordic race and there is those who consider white race all north others says they are all Europeans other says they are Europeans and Mediterraneans it mean they include Berbers and near-easterns (Lebanese -Syrians-turkish ....) To me as Berber with light skin I don't consider my self white with the meaning of white race I do also consider the Amazigh as independent ethnical group but I don't have any problem to be reffered as white especially if the meaning of white is getting more opened and not as much as extremist and limited

[@Ibrahim-xu6dt]

@بطرس حسان hawwara or houwara is in all north Africa not only Sudan and those who are right now in Syria Palestine Lebanon and Jordan they are actually from Algeria Koutama is Berber tribe from the east of Algeria and Koutama is Houwarian tribe because houwara is the mother tribe of several tribes ,, the koutamis conquered almost all the Islamic world they created the fatimi empire dawla fatimiyya and they reached the Sham and a lot of houwarians still there to nowadays

[@solwen]

@بطرس حسان Berbers, Persian, Afghans, Arabs etc are scientifically "Whites" but not Europeans

[@sanaahamdan2043]

The original busts are dazzling, so full of life. The reconstructions are good but there is something missing.

[@LacyLuvsGodiva]

I feel like the statues are more expressive. As wonderful as the recreations are, the faces are a bit blank.

[@javiUSC]

All completely innacurate

[@sohas7806]

I feel like the vibes are different. The vibe of the men are different to the recreations.

[@aryyancarman705]

@@javiUSC not completely lol

[@jonathanspilhaus3165]

The eyes and lips need to reveal more: staring, psychotic for emperors like Caligula and open and understanding for Antoniolnous Pius

[@whoaitstiger]

7:40 Absolute monster of a human being this guy. I shudder just to imagine his presence.

[@abrahammelano3495]

Also the music helped to make him look more intimidating

[@rav9066]

why does it look like he's permanently looking down at me

[@whoaitstiger]

@@rav9066 He's trying to figure out where we got the nerve to even exist, while being annoyed that he had to waste time on that thought.

[@condor2279]

@Mialisus I too remember that old meme

[@vilevagrant4632]

I've been looking forward to this.

[@eleanorsky1]

Pertinax also needs eyelid work, as do Didius and Septimius. As an artist and medical illustrator, I'm thinking that the graphic artist himself may have hooded eyelids that he is subconsciously projecting onto his subjects. Otherwise nice work.

[@ScarletVoodoo]

I also noticed that he used hooded eyelids on a lot of them for some reason. Some of his noses are off as well. It really does make a difference.

[@Camelepiz]

The work is impressive, for sure, yet I was distracted by the eyebrows that seemed the same for the most part, and didn't reflect the statuary. I too wondered if it was a projection of the artist's own eyebrows. I also wondered why the haircuts and beards seemed so modern. It seemed as if curly locks might be difficult to recreate?

[@patriciocordova449]

I shed a tear when I saw Emperor Marcus Aurelius come to life.

[@lorishiversdogmom]

I like how the Praetorian guards and the Senate always knocked off their emperor's if they didn't like them. Geez. The most dangerous place in the world was the imperial seat of Rome. 🙄😣

[@Dan_Ben_Michael]

It was good idea really to make money. Auction off the throne, get paid, kill the emperor, then repeat.

[@K.V.H.]

Man these videos are amazing! Thank you for making them, I'm sure they weren't fast or easy to do

[@jonathankoon1960]

When AI reveals that Roman emperors acted like Mark Zuckerberg in an interview

[@cristianobattaglia7574]

Amazing work here, the recreations perfectly resembling the busts on the left (I was shocked by Caracalla, whose recreation is identical to the sculpture, but all works are great). Can’t wait for the 3rd century emperors; I guess there’s going to be a huge work there (and consequently a much longer video, or rather more videos) because of the fact that 3rd century military anarchy saw more than 20 emperors (both legitimate and usurpers) everywhere in the empire, proclaimed and murdered by soldiers/praetorians.

[@jmchez]

Trajan declared that he would not accept confessions obtained under torture. He would also not confiscate the property of those accused of being Christian unless they were found guilty of other crimes.

[@metalbelles3662]

That was do nice of him

[@optimvsprinceps1845]

That is why he's best emperor ever.

[@old_school_egyptian2903]

Wow that's gay...

[@antoniokovac5170]

@CipiRipi00 as it should be

[@enlosluceros7236]

He was born in Hispania (current Spain). It doesn't have to be related but Spain did the same under the Laws of Burgos banning slavery in 1512. So nice of them.

[@jennyrose9454]

I really like these. Some of these guys are so hard looking

[@rudamachoo]

man, 2nd century emperors and their hair! (and beards) a marked turn in fashion. love this, thank you

[@MysteryScoop]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@gianlucarossi5672]

@@MysteryScoop Just some fun facts. The ancient Roman emperors went to hairdressers. They used curling irons, and all kinds of cosmetics, to style, enhance their hair. So, the Romans had different fashions and trends for hairstyles. For instance, wearing a beard, having a hairstyle that made the hair look more puffy and curly became fashionable with Hadrian. In contrast to that, in early imperial Rome, the times of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, etc. straight, cropped hair and being clean-shaven was very trendy and en vogue.

[@arcane7779]

There have been many attempts to recreate the life likeness of former Roman emperors and I must say you've done a good job here.

[@megaton6023]

Omg, when i saw Trajan i felt his power, what an amazing job

[@optimvsprinceps1845]

OPTIMVS PRINCEPS!

[@kalel311superman9]

before photography this was the way to go

[@vivianh9197]

Wow!! That’s amazing!!

[@MysteryScoop]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Martita-nn8jl]

Buenísimo!!! 👍👍👍👍 Gracias . me gustan esos hombres ... bien fuertes..

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

Wow. Commodus looks quite related to Marcus Aurelius in these renditions. Good job.

[@hankwilliams150]

I have good, good friend who looks exactly like the face of Antoninus Pius from the statue. The first time I saw the bust I was amazed and even another friend of mine agreed!

[@ereini0n]

Emperor Hadrian is so cute! I wish there was a TV show about his fascinating life.

[@yisuscraist3680]

KZbin after showing me this: Are you not entertained? Me: Ave KZbin

[@luisbortot3880]

LOVE this video, the animation looks SO REAL !! LOTS of HANDSOME guys !! Current romans live up to those looks up today

[@MrGreen-nu8og]

you can become emperor by winning at an auction? then executed just two months later???

[@darius5396]

I guarantee this is 80% accurate to what they really looked like

[@glooring7039]

You are a time traveler.

[@CondeFranklin]

Nice vídeo

[@king-bj2yh]

Beautiful and wonderful video greeting from Libya, his birthplace, Emperor Septimius Severus

[@tadeoerrasti629]

Wow this is FASCINATING

[@israelasiku3975]

So it was Hadrian who started the full beard trend🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Damn, you really got Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, and most especially, Caracalla. Big ups to you man.

[@hudsonvie]

Amazing how much hair these guys had. Hair Club for Men?

[@kingbjorn1832]

After Hadrian, he gave that trending of the beard and curvy hair, before him, having a beard was considered "filthy"

[@tonyslabu6373]

It's just how Mediteranean people are,trust me it gets tiring after a while

[@CensoBeats]

Imagine if we could talk to them only for 24 hours, face to face, the stories man

[@dave8181]

These are excellent... awaiting more emperors! P.S. I was thinking about the hair - they all had a good head of hair, or maybe some were bald and we're looking at wigs on some of them?

[@sohas7806]

The sculptors in those times would make the emperor look better by tweaking here and there. Kind of like photoshop to make the emperor look more powerful to the people. Many of them were probably bald but they'd make a request to give them a full head of hair.

[@dave8181]

@@sohas7806 thanks, I didn't know that.

[@gianlucarossi5672]

@@dave8181 She is wrong. Ancient Romans cared very about depicting people including the emperors realistically as possible, and they usually didn't flatter them. Hence, they depicting the emperors with individual facial features, such as receding hairline, double chin, big or hooked noses, wrinkles or with a fat and bloated face. The thing, is that Romans had hairstylists, and used iron curling and all kinds of cosmetics to make their hair look more curly or fully. However, some emperors like Lucius Verus had naturally thick or curly hair. Verus was naturally blond and used powder of flakes of gold to make his hair look even more shiny and golden.

[@gianlucarossi5672]

@@sohas7806 Not the ancient Romans. They depicted the emperors, generals or other famous people usually very realistically and didn't flattered them much. Look at the busts of Vespasian, Cato, Vitellius , Galba who were depicted with lots of wrinkles, with extremely thin lips and balding.

[@daft_j]

@@gianlucarossi5672 Nerva was also depicted with wrinkles, thin lips, and possibly paralysis in part of his face due to a stroke

[@bathraxgrimtoad2229]

Those videos are very interesting, thank you very much. If you have more please make a video about the 3rd siecle Roman emperors and others. Egypt could be interesting too !!

[@AtomicApe13]

It was Perfect, Thank You All for Your Hard Work. This Is Very Important to me 📜🎵💯

[@thyagtubes]

In future, historical movies can be acted by unknown actors with approximately matching features(body height/width, and hair) and then deep fake their face with these images.

[@davidszabo1618]

Fantastic video. Great recreations! Loving the Roman numerals! Can you do recreations of the Medici? Please!

[@Tomatohater64]

All of these were great but Hadrian was a dead ringer.

[@0shizznes0]

Brilliant upload 👍 thanks for this.

[@JaimeMesChiens]

Hadrianus is my favourite Emperor. You made him looks especially handsome.

[@Nighthawk799]

You all criticize with no reason! This was an amazing job!!!!

[@fan2jnrc]

We criticize for very good reasons.

[@theshadowfinnjake]

This looks a million times better than the crap they try to make on History channel

[@yasindegirmenci9544]

Damn! I am so scared of their mimics!

[@rmaxdevil]

why?

[@yasindegirmenci9544]

@@rmaxdevil I don't know, I scare of not knowing too 😂

[@andreluisgallo1982]

Valeu!

[@MysteryScoop]

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[@andreluisgallo1982]

@@MysteryScoop 👍

[@evanz2704]

omg I love your channel. Subbed so hard! As a digital/3d artist since 1997 with a profound interest in history this makes my brain tingle. ❤️

[@MysteryScoop]

Welcome aboard!

[@artinaam]

Trajan looks like my father-in-law :D

[@JamesDMorris2008]

with CGI and deep fake getting momentum in Hollywood, it would be cool to see a movie about Rome (and other historical events) using such reconstructions.

[@MrSafior]

I hope not, cgi get old and Uncanny really fast.

[@journeyman4862]

Each one's lips look different than the bust . Also Commodus and Caracalla with gray hair and beard appear too old for their age.

[@2000un2000]

Yeah. Caracalla looks like a 35-45 year old. Commodus wears an old mans beard:)

[@sohas7806]

yeah i noticed that too. Their lips look totally different from the statues.

[@ocdplaylistmaker7032]

Could be shadows and angles

[@dankoher4318]

Times were tough! 😺😹😸

[@MrAlepedroza]

@@ocdplaylistmaker7032 Exactly. People seem to forget that white statues reflect shadows and highlight some features that color and angles hide in real people.

[@justincase01]

Fascinating video work, I've always wondered what Caligula would realistically look like. He was such a ruthless bastard.

[@admontblanc]

He looked very much alike the other men of the Julii-Caesares families.

[@tzw001]

Thank you this is a real game changer!