
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· 69β30 BCE
Cleopatra VII Philopator
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Roman Republic
Gaius Julius Caesar
100β44 BCE

Late Medieval England
Richard III of England
1452β1485

Tudor England
Elizabeth I of England
1533β1603

Classical Greece / Hellenistic
Alexander III of Macedon
356β323 BCE

Classical Greece
Philip II of Macedon
382β336 BCE

Revolutionary & Napoleonic France
Napoleon Bonaparte
1769β1821

New Kingdom Egypt (18th Dynasty)
Nefertiti
c. 1370βc. 1330 BCE

New Kingdom Egypt (18th Dynasty)
Tutankhamun
c. 1341βc. 1323 BCE

Roman Empire (Julio-Claudian dynasty)
Nero Claudius Caesar
37β68 CE

Tudor England
Anne Boleyn
c. 1501β1536

Late Medieval France (Hundred Yearsβ War)
Joan of Arc
c. 1412β1431