AI reconstruction of Cleopatra VII Philopator

The Faces Who Made History

They were real people who had pimples. For some of them, we have good evidence of what they actually looked like. Busts carved from life, coins struck in their presence, even written accounts describing them down to the shape of their nose.

By feeding these sources into AI image generation, we can synthesise the most photorealistic depictions of these faces yet.

Ptolemaic Egypt Β· 69–30 BCE

Cleopatra VII Philopator

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