As a Latin teacher this takes my breath away. For over 30 years I have studied and taught this amazing language and to see its very speakers and figures of the history I so love brought to life is indescribably wondrous! Thank you for this and to the artists who painstakingly create these! It's seeing photos and videos from 2000 years ago--just incredible! ❤
I've enjoyed this a lot more than I enjoyed taking Latin in high school. But there are flaws. Too often the hair is not right, it's just 20th/21st century styles perched on top of the faces. The faces are too smooth, unmarked by life. I can't see real, living people inside those faces (not like I can in the contemporary sculptures). Some of the faces don't seem age appropriate. The eyes mostly appear to be just STOCK. There are details about the eyes that haven't been transferred from sculptures the images draw from. I've read that "the eyes are the windows of the soul" - but not here. You can't see the incipient madness in Caligula's eyes, nor Nero's dissipated Frat Boy ... Some of these guys were "rode hard & put up wet", but you don't see it in these facial reconstructions. I will credit that the artist hasn't made the mistake most of the other face reconstructions I've seen make. The head moves as a piece. It's NOT just a face wiggling around inside a frame of hair & ears. If I were grading this as a school exercise, I'd give it a solid "B - room for improvement" (a grade I'm quite familiar with from my own school years).
As much as some of us might ponder the "delights" of time travel, we would not like most of the past, if such travel were ever possible. We'd be constantly appalled by the barbarity and cruelty around us.
@@nolalove9723 Many things in those times were better than today. However, they were select things, such as craftsmanship and the nutritional value of foods. Having said that, there is no doubt that even the poor today live better than the Kings and Emperors of old, as far as modern amenities. The ancients made up for this in large part by having their own personal workforce of servants and slaves. We live better in so many ways, yet take it totally for granted, not even knowing how well off we actually are.
@@nolalove9723 Indeed, people are much the same everywhere in the World, and everywhere in time. The other major differences between groups of people throughout time and place are attitudes and ideas. Of those two, ideas are the more important, and the more changeable. There are reasons why dictators fight a war of ideas as soon as they come to power. There were also reasons why Rome's adversaries would choose to kill themselves and their families when defeated in battle, rather than become slaves in ancient Rome.
I think it's sad that all of these young men's lives were cut short, especially the 9 and 12 year old boys. They never really had a chance at life. Beautiful work at making these people come to life again.
Being a member of the Praetorien Guard shure is the most dope job in human history. I mean, wich other profession has 'murder your boss' in it's job description?
Those busts and statues with distant blank eyes are one thing, but seeing them in colour and animated turns them into real, relatable people just like us. This work is mesmerizing.
The Roman army wasn't even roman during the Imperial period. It consisted almost entirely of foreign Germanic mercenaries. And guess who took over all of Western Europe immediately after the collapse of the Roman Empire(arguably, even before its collapase)?
The Imperator part of the position was a military command, the Augustus Princeps part of the position was the part with actual political power. While in theory the Senate was empowered to grant both powers, realistically after the end of the Julio-Claudians, the legions elected their own imperators frequently. After Trajan, the Senate formalized the practice of accepting imperial candidates nominated by the legions, and after Aurelian they began to just rubberstamp whoever the most legions wanted in power.
I bet a bust already existed even before they became the emperor. Having a bust was not the emperor's privilege in Roman time. These were powerful people even before they became the emperor.
@@sleepybunny2 This is true. So instead of loading the family up in the Cutlass for pics at Sears, you had Flabulus, the scuptor, come by the villa to chip out a quick bust.
At the job interview: Rome: So...we have a new vacancy. General manager of the Empire. Candidate: What happened to the last manager? Rome: Ahh, nothing. He just wasn't fit for the job, retired early. Retailing is haaard, you know. *unforgiving* (Quote dead body floating in the river behind new hopeful candidate)
A very violent time to live in, either you died in battle, were killed when you fell out of favour with you troops or died from the various plagues that were throughout the empire.
@@romella_karmey Being a woman in ancient times wasn’t nearly as bad as it’s made out to be, especially when you see what things were like for the men in power.
I just realized I have never seen a recreation of emperor Constantine I’s face. I hope you will give it a try, it would be nice to see what one of the most famous emperors looked like. Amazing work by the way, I look forward to watching 3rd century emperors part 2.
But there is a problem. The Roman Empire as we know never existed. The real Roman Empire was Constantinople, or sometimes called Jerusalem. Constantinople was the capital city of the Roman Empire. Rome Italy was founded 1390 by Aenas !
Watching al three of the episodes, the one common theme is when they are animated, they look like they want to say something, like they are waiting for a question. I guess the next level of realism would be to have them talk about their rein. I for one would love to hear what they have to say.
Very cool ! I appreciate how accurate you are with the eye and hair color and the skin tones !! For years ive seen reconstruction of the Roman bust and they were always made to he pale and blonde or red haired and blue eyes . These are absolutely refreshing to see !! Thank you !!
These men are remarkably handsome, strong and very masculine. It is such a pity that so many died violent, early deaths. Thank you again, I love your work.
@@varana i'm a bit late, but i will answer. Almost all of them had italic blood. If you take a look at their family trees, you'll find their italic roots. Very few of them were from other parts of the empire
These are very well made, but a lot of them are missing or have wrong features compare to the statues. Like one is missing a cleft in the chin and others have their cheek bones wrong.
you would still be killed as you had a claimate to the thrown. They would still get rid of you to make sure you or your children could not take the thrown in the future
Such good looking chaps! Dacius, Herennius Etruscus, and Hostilian were from provinces of Pannonia and Moesia, where part of my family originates from. Can't wait to see Diocletian.
Wonderful work! Could you possibly do the Hellenistic world BC with Alexander, Pericles, Sophocles, Alcibiades, Socrates, Aristotle? Alcibiades for instance was apparently one of the most beautiful men in Greece where everyone fell in love with him (for a time before they fell out with him). I'd like to see an approximation of what he looked like.
Absolutely amazing to see . It’s incredible to think our technology has advanced so much that we can reconstruct the faces of our past .. Just wow!! Well done for sure..
Speaking of Ottomans. I personally wouldn't mind seeing Byzantine emperors, but then again, all we have for reference are mosaics so probably not the best source material available, but it would still be cool none the less.
@@tigervalley62 Oh, that is true, Sir. It certainly is interesting to see such historical figures come alive with such wonderful color and animation. Thank you :)
Great work, thank you for that! The recreation of Gordian I (5:41) must be at the age of 30...40, almost half a century before he was emperor. But he looks also decades younger than the man in the statue.
This so interesting. I never studied this and am enjoying reading the info. to figure out who took out who, lots of murdering going on. The only question I have is about the three older men (Gordon I, Pupienus, and Balbinus). They were age 79, 70, and 60. So, why aren't they shown at that age? Surely, they had grey hair at that point? Or were the statues, and therefore re-creations, in that time period all created as if they were young?
The busts do represent them at the time when they were emperors, so they do depict them in their old(ish) age. It's the reconstruction that makes them look younger. If you take Gordian's picture, add the deeper wrinkles that are actually there in the original portrait, and give him white hair, you would actually get the image of an old man. Still good-looking for someone of his age, but definitely old. Similarly with Pupienus - white or at least grey hair would go a long way into making his depiction more age-appropriate. Beauty was not high on the list of priorities for statues of the soldier-emperors. They needed other virtues to be emphasised - strength, severity, determination, a soldier's life, that sort of thing.
I love this, but when you make the recreations, please try to remember to keep the lines and wrinkles on the face including cleft chins etc. That is what makes the character of the person and it will make the recreation a bit more realistic to the carved heads.
I'm currently reading a book about all the Roman Emperors and these videos are so helpful because it really does elevate the fact that they once lived on this planet like all of us and they were real people. It's also really amazing to read about them then see what they could've looked like. Thank you for making these videos!
The fact that you can find all these facial features also now in modern Italy says a lot. Roman Empire was very diversified and some of these emperors weren’t even originally italic. It’s beautiful to notice all the influences that I can still see in my country and in my people. Amazing work! I hope for an improvement of the nasal software because it’s good for straight or aquiline noses but it’s less precise on bulbous and crooked noses 🙏🏻💗
Such extreme and brutal times. No doubt they must have expected death at any given moment, around every corner. These facial recreations are mesmerizing. Love being able to see their living faces and the depth in their eyes.
The really high quality and realistic Roman statues helps so much with the AI reconstruction. In many ways it is much easier to reconstruct than medieval paintings which tend to over exaggerate features.
There are a few errors. In the earlier young emperors, many are shown with a modern day light beard where there busts show none. Most Romans didn't grow beards, and if they did it was later in life. Secondly, older emperors, based on text provided, died in their 50's, 60's, and 70's. The busts show this, yet the recreation shows a man in his 40's-ish. Prime example is Gordion I and Gordion II, both depicted about the same age, yet father and son killed at the same time.
Finally!!! Roman Emperors that actually look Latin Mediterranean and not that Nordic look that Hollywood and Northern Europeans would like you to believe....🏛Roma Victa!!!
@@chombus2602 Yes, northern Italians' hair, eyes and skin are much ligther colored, but the previous reconstructions of Roman Emperors were almost all quite fair, and if I'm not wrong, many of the portraits of ancient Romans are more Mediterranean looking.
Very good. One of the very few of the daily uploaded new videos that is well made and quite informative. One "thumb up" from me and greetings from Cologne, Germany.
Graças à alta tecnologia e ao trabalho minucioso desses verdadeiros artistas, nós podemos hoje em dia, ter a sensação de contemplar a face desses Imperadores de Roma, como que em uma viagem no tempo, através de milênios de anos atrás. Muito obrigada! 👏👏👏
Sometimes they all look the same and the lips are mostly different even in the other videos but I am sure it will be better and better but in the end its also awesome how they maybe would look 👍
They're very impressive. Although he was never a Roman emperor...he didn't live long enough to have made it to Rome to possibly become one, maybe the 1st, but I'd love to see what the great Alexander may have looked like! Thank you for this remarkable and wondrous treat!
This technology is so cool, it's very fascinating seeing faces of the past brought back to life. It's also nice to get some info on these people, I've never heard of most of them.
I was thinking wouldn't it be great if these colorization experts teamed up with forensic reconstruction people that sculpt faces onto unidentified skulls to breathe just a bit more into identifying the unknown remains? I think it would possibly help the families or others recognize them a little easier.
Check other centuries here... Thanks!
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If you want l will send you the coins of every numedian king
As a Latin teacher this takes my breath away. For over 30 years I have studied and taught this amazing language and to see its very speakers and figures of the history I so love brought to life is indescribably wondrous! Thank you for this and to the artists who painstakingly create these! It's seeing photos and videos from 2000 years ago--just incredible! ❤
I've enjoyed this a lot more than I enjoyed taking Latin in high school.
But there are flaws. Too often the hair is not right, it's just 20th/21st century styles perched on top of the faces. The faces are too smooth, unmarked by life. I can't see real, living people inside those faces (not like I can in the contemporary sculptures). Some of the faces don't seem age appropriate.
The eyes mostly appear to be just STOCK. There are details about the eyes that haven't been transferred from sculptures the images draw from. I've read that "the eyes are the windows of the soul" - but not here. You can't see the incipient madness in Caligula's eyes, nor Nero's dissipated Frat Boy ...
Some of these guys were "rode hard & put up wet", but you don't see it in these facial reconstructions.
I will credit that the artist hasn't made the mistake most of the other face reconstructions I've seen make. The head moves as a piece. It's NOT just a face wiggling around inside a frame of hair & ears.
If I were grading this as a school exercise, I'd give it a solid "B - room for improvement" (a grade I'm quite familiar with from my own school years).
I would like to see what Pontius Pilatus may have looked like.
Being an emperor was certainly hazardous to your health
So was being the president. There are more than 60 assassination attempts on Trump’s life: Two included Melania.
@@hollygolightly8048 I never heard that, Holly! Thanks for the info.
@@sallysmith8081 Fake news. There were attempts but never more than 60. That's absurd!
@@jimb8695 I agree. Does not sound plausible
@@hollygolightly8048 can you give me one source where can find that information? Sounds implausable
Wanted: Roman Emperor for short term contract. Prospects are likely torture and eventual murder at the hands of your friends.
...And we thought the Vikings were the only barbaric ones.
And your family
As much as some of us might ponder the "delights" of time travel, we would not like most of the past, if such travel were ever possible. We'd be constantly appalled by the barbarity and cruelty around us.
@@nolalove9723
Many things in those times were better than today. However, they were select things, such as craftsmanship and the nutritional value of foods.
Having said that, there is no doubt that even the poor today live better than the Kings and Emperors of old, as far as modern amenities.
The ancients made up for this in large part by having their own personal workforce of servants and slaves.
We live better in so many ways, yet take it totally for granted, not even knowing how well off we actually are.
@@nolalove9723
Indeed, people are much the same everywhere in the World, and everywhere in time.
The other major differences between groups of people throughout time and place are attitudes and ideas.
Of those two, ideas are the more important, and the more changeable.
There are reasons why dictators fight a war of ideas as soon as they come to power.
There were also reasons why Rome's adversaries would choose to kill themselves and their families when defeated in battle, rather than become slaves in ancient Rome.
I think it's sad that all of these young men's lives were cut short, especially the 9 and 12 year old boys. They never really had a chance at life. Beautiful work at making these people come to life again.
The same with the last French Kings childrens murdered by atheist at the satanic french revolution
So many were children or young adults. So sad they died so young. Wonderful job on this thank you so much!
They simply had the misfortune of being the sons of emperors. Sad, to be sure.
Also, they believed violence is now to handle things... hint hint... also, it was a different time (regarding their ages) but still...
Life in those times was rough.
What about the people they killed. Does who kill by swords die by sword
The 3rd century AD was a rough time to be a Roman no mater what your status or age was.
They were emperors just long enough to make statues of them, but not a second more.
Roman Senate: Congrats! You're the new Emperor.
Me: Thanks but I think I'll take a hard pass on that. 😧
🤣🤣🤣 Next....
😂 😂 😂 😂
You and me both brother 😨 Those sculptors had to work pretty darn fast!
@@janem9408 😂😂😂😂
What do you mean you don't want to be emperor?! Kill him!!!
Being a member of the Praetorien Guard shure is the most dope job in human history. I mean, wich other profession has 'murder your boss' in it's job description?
The Janisseries of the Ottoman Empire?
Police officer in USA.
We should clone Pretorian guards with the DNA and bring them back in modern days to take care of the nice politics we have now
I don’t think I would’ve wanted to be a Caesar; you basically sign your own death certificate by doing so.
These poor kids made "Emperor". Just sacrificial pawns in political chess.
utterly sickening. what kind of monster runs down a 9 year old boy and executes him?
@@lah67 China did that with a 3 year old emperor
Praetorian Guards: kills every emperor they were meant to protect
Next emperor in line: no, I’ll keep them as guards no problem
They usually replaced the members of the Guards with their own men. But it was a short-term solution.
Until Constantine, who was really pissed off by them :D
Those busts and statues with distant blank eyes are one thing, but seeing them in colour and animated turns them into real, relatable people just like us. This work is mesmerizing.
Looks like they didn't paint portraits of people as they did in later centuries.
@@Goodiesfanful the busts were coloured but lost it all , we know their eye and hair colour because of the written descriptions
It's quite obvious that the Roman army ruled the empire, isn't it?
The Roman army wasn't even roman during the Imperial period. It consisted almost entirely of foreign Germanic mercenaries. And guess who took over all of Western Europe immediately after the collapse of the Roman Empire(arguably, even before its collapase)?
@@kekeke8988 yeah nah
The Imperator part of the position was a military command, the Augustus Princeps part of the position was the part with actual political power. While in theory the Senate was empowered to grant both powers, realistically after the end of the Julio-Claudians, the legions elected their own imperators frequently. After Trajan, the Senate formalized the practice of accepting imperial candidates nominated by the legions, and after Aurelian they began to just rubberstamp whoever the most legions wanted in power.
@@kekeke8988 The GENERALS ruled the Empire and they were ROMANS, not germanic.
It's hard to believe there was time to carve a bust for some of these guys.
"He's dead already? Just have to finish it from memory, I guess."
I bet a bust already existed even before they became the emperor. Having a bust was not the emperor's privilege in Roman time. These were powerful people even before they became the emperor.
@@sleepybunny2 This is true. So instead of loading the family up in the Cutlass for pics at Sears, you had Flabulus, the scuptor, come by the villa to chip out a quick bust.
@@sleepybunny2 yes
9 years old boy.
2021: Son, get up you're going to be late for school
Roman empire: Mommy the barbarians want to kidnap me, help!
But Mater never did help. :(
Dang
All of a sudden the idea of being a roman emperor looses alot of its luster
At the job interview:
Rome: So...we have a new vacancy. General manager of the Empire.
Candidate: What happened to the last manager?
Rome: Ahh, nothing. He just wasn't fit for the job, retired early. Retailing is haaard, you know. *unforgiving*
(Quote dead body floating in the river behind new hopeful candidate)
Wow being an emperor was a dangerous occupation!
Let alone being the President today.
A very violent time to live in, either you died in battle, were killed when you fell out of favour with you troops or died from the various plagues that were throughout the empire.
Unless you're a woman.
@@romella_karmey Severus Alexander was lynched by mutinous troops alongside his mother, 4:21 of the video.
@@romella_karmey Being a woman in ancient times wasn’t nearly as bad as it’s made out to be, especially when you see what things were like for the men in power.
@@lalehiandeity1649 I wanna be a woman in those ancient times to give different handsome men some nightly fun 😏🤭
@@romella_karmey Bruh
Aw Diadumenian was so adorable, I would definitely have tried to hide him like Paris of Troy.
Same.
On finding the murderer guilty the judge sentenced him to be Emperor of Rome...
A just and terrible punishment, assuredly! :)
Congratulations on becoming Emperor! Just remember you're only Emperor for life.
I just realized I have never seen a recreation of emperor Constantine I’s face. I hope you will give it a try, it would be nice to see what one of the most famous emperors looked like.
Amazing work by the way, I look forward to watching 3rd century emperors part 2.
He basically looks like Sylvester Stallone
@@benformosa9648 true that
These guys really died horrible deaths. Can’t trust anyone
Damned period of history caused by the hunger for power.Nothing would stop them from killing. Absolutely gastly!
I guess the emperors deserved it
@@jayjay-bz3rr The adult emperors must've deserved such fate,no doubt. But the children!!!!
Blame the privileged Praetorian Guard.
This is where the Mafia got it from
Really enjoyed this. Eye opening for this American who was never taught this in school.
Now imagine, what else you aren't told... ;-)
Or much of anything else... but that is why you need to educate yourself!
It would take forever to learn much of this that is why you have special studies that go in dept.
But there is a problem. The Roman Empire as we know never existed. The real Roman Empire was Constantinople, or sometimes called Jerusalem. Constantinople was the capital city of the Roman Empire. Rome Italy was founded 1390 by Aenas !
@@spamtelevision
Idiocy.
So what have we all learned from this series? That the Praetorian Guard sure as hell don't do a lot of guarding of their emperors!
Watching al three of the episodes, the one common theme is when they are animated, they look like they want to say something, like they are waiting for a question. I guess the next level of realism would be to have them talk about their rein. I for one would love to hear what they have to say.
Let’s go, Brandon
Very cool ! I appreciate how accurate you are with the eye and hair color and the skin tones !! For years ive seen reconstruction of the Roman bust and they were always made to he pale and blonde or red haired and blue eyes . These are absolutely refreshing to see !! Thank you !!
You so nailed Severus Alexander!
Time stanp?
Maximinus Thrax...best Roman emperor name ever.
not ,PUPIENUS ? Lol
But your right. I named my lab
Maximus Decimus . Cool name to have I think if people wouldn't reduce it to (Max)
He was also the largest and tallest Roman Emperor
These men are remarkably handsome, strong and very masculine. It is such a pity that so many died violent, early deaths.
Thank you again, I love your work.
And remarkably NORTHERN European archetypes, rather than mongrel "Mediterranean" types! Just like ancient Greeks!
They look nothing like current Northern European men.
@@EarlT357 WHAT?!? Have you ever even seen what a Mediterranean person looks like?? Lmfao
@@EarlT357 so ignorant.
@@EarlT357 All this guys look as mediterranean as Gennaro Gatusso.
Most everyone of these men were very handsome. I think your talent at this is too good, not one ugly man in the group!
Hermosos hombres y casi todos muy bien afeitados.
Balbinus at 7:43 wasn't handsome.
Italians
@@arip172 Almost no one of these were from Italy, though.
@@varana i'm a bit late, but i will answer. Almost all of them had italic blood. If you take a look at their family trees, you'll find their italic roots. Very few of them were from other parts of the empire
These are very well made, but a lot of them are missing or have wrong features compare to the statues. Like one is missing a cleft in the chin and others have their cheek bones wrong.
The programme also does not seem to be very good at modelling curly hair
And also miss the age of these emperors. Some older 60-70 yo ones look way younger, while some teenagers look way older.
Or nose, lower lips, standard foreheads, etc.
Thank you for speaking up, I thought the same. He/she made it believable but some features were off a bit. Overall, he/she did a nice job.
Yeah, some of these are just awful.
If anyone offered the job to me I would have politely declined. 😏
Well, you would have missed being recreated today on RUclips then... 😂
Problem was, once you had been offered the purple (usually by the army), even if you refused, what future candidate was going to let you live?.
you would still be killed as you had a claimate to the thrown. They would still get rid of you to make sure you or your children could not take the thrown in the future
Such good looking chaps! Dacius, Herennius Etruscus, and Hostilian were from provinces of Pannonia and Moesia, where part of my family originates from. Can't wait to see Diocletian.
Wonderful work! Could you possibly do the Hellenistic world BC with Alexander, Pericles, Sophocles, Alcibiades, Socrates, Aristotle? Alcibiades for instance was apparently one of the most beautiful men in Greece where everyone fell in love with him (for a time before they fell out with him). I'd like to see an approximation of what he looked like.
I think Haroun is working on something similar!
Some very attractive men! Undead! SWOON!♥️
Indead
Absolutely amazing to see . It’s incredible to think our technology has advanced so much that we can reconstruct the faces of our past .. Just wow!! Well done for sure..
OMG, I can't believe how young some of these men were. Love looking at these beautifully done pics. Thank you so much.
When you play the game of thrones, you live, or you die.
Excellent work. It's very realistic to see them moving. It's like they were here among us again. Waiting for the rest of the emperors.
Gordian II looks exactly like Matteo Salvini head of the Lega party in Italy, too effin' funny!!! Troppe forte!!!! 😂😂😂😂
Oh I wish you could do some of the Ottoman sultans and their family. That would be so interesting also :)
Yeah... and super bloody. They killed so many children.
Speaking of Ottomans. I personally wouldn't mind seeing Byzantine emperors, but then again, all we have for reference are mosaics so probably not the best source material available, but it would still be cool none the less.
@@tigervalley62 Oh, that is true, Sir. It certainly is interesting to see such historical figures come alive with such wonderful color and animation. Thank you :)
Great work, thank you for that! The recreation of Gordian I (5:41) must be at the age of 30...40, almost half a century before he was emperor. But he looks also decades younger than the man in the statue.
Because a lot of the aging wrinkles that are on most people's faces are left out.
Still amazing work though.
You're really doing a great job on these videos!. "Hey we just elected you as the new emperor".... "Ah me? Ah... no no no". :-)
Really impressive! You brought them to life again! Great job.
Yay, thank you!
This so interesting. I never studied this and am enjoying reading the info. to figure out who took out who, lots of murdering going on. The only question I have is about the three older men (Gordon I, Pupienus, and Balbinus). They were age 79, 70, and 60. So, why aren't they shown at that age? Surely, they had grey hair at that point? Or were the statues, and therefore re-creations, in that time period all created as if they were young?
I was wondering the same thing
I think they younger man face was all they got for whatever reason. They couldn't find a model like those guys.
I think the busts aren't necessarily from the time they were emperors. It could be that they are from earlier in their respective lives.
The busts do represent them at the time when they were emperors, so they do depict them in their old(ish) age. It's the reconstruction that makes them look younger. If you take Gordian's picture, add the deeper wrinkles that are actually there in the original portrait, and give him white hair, you would actually get the image of an old man. Still good-looking for someone of his age, but definitely old. Similarly with Pupienus - white or at least grey hair would go a long way into making his depiction more age-appropriate.
Beauty was not high on the list of priorities for statues of the soldier-emperors. They needed other virtues to be emphasised - strength, severity, determination, a soldier's life, that sort of thing.
I love this, but when you make the recreations, please try to remember to keep the lines and wrinkles on the face including cleft chins etc. That is what makes the character of the person and it will make the recreation a bit more realistic to the carved heads.
I'm looking forward to see the rest of the recreation of other emperors :) good video
It is shocking how young some of these people were. Both when they became emperors and when they died.
Back then you didn’t stay emperor long....
I feel that you managed to capture Philipp the second very well!
Indeed
I'm currently reading a book about all the Roman Emperors and these videos are so helpful because it really does elevate the fact that they once lived on this planet like all of us and they were real people. It's also really amazing to read about them then see what they could've looked like. Thank you for making these videos!
The fact that you can find all these facial features also now in modern Italy says a lot. Roman Empire was very diversified and some of these emperors weren’t even originally italic. It’s beautiful to notice all the influences that I can still see in my country and in my people. Amazing work! I hope for an improvement of the nasal software because it’s good for straight or aquiline noses but it’s less precise on bulbous and crooked noses 🙏🏻💗
Everyone either died in battle, murdered or by suicide.
Suicide? Forced to or be killed or family killed more like it! Fall in their sword rather than the alternative!
Such extreme and brutal times. No doubt they must have expected death at any given moment, around every corner. These facial recreations are mesmerizing. Love being able to see their living faces and the depth in their eyes.
The really high quality and realistic Roman statues helps so much with the AI reconstruction. In many ways it is much easier to reconstruct than medieval paintings which tend to over exaggerate features.
I have been waiting for the next series of emperors THANK YOU . Job well done 👍🏻
Dangerous to be a Roman Emperor at that time!
You mad lad. You're actually doing the Third Century. Serious respect, man.
Mesmerizing, I enjoyed watching your videos!
You touch my heart with this amazing work. Please keep going with this wonderful work.
There are a few errors. In the earlier young emperors, many are shown with a modern day light beard where there busts show none. Most Romans didn't grow beards, and if they did it was later in life.
Secondly, older emperors, based on text provided, died in their 50's, 60's, and 70's. The busts show this, yet the recreation shows a man in his 40's-ish. Prime example is Gordion I and Gordion II, both depicted about the same age, yet father and son killed at the same time.
Because the face details like wrinkles are left out.
How come you didn't include the cleft chin on Gordian 3? Not that these aren't all brilliant
Agree, it was a very noticeable detail that was missing on the reconstruction.
The generic noses disturb me too. It looks like they have more or less the same endings or tips and they hadn't.
Well, some were blonde as well. Kinda strange they’re ALL brown hair, brown eyes. Many romans had blonde hair and blue eyes.
@@genuineimitation8799 nah
Finally!!! Roman Emperors that actually look Latin Mediterranean and not that Nordic look that Hollywood and Northern Europeans would like you to believe....🏛Roma Victa!!!
Funny. I’ve never seen a “European” influence on any Roman depiction.
The same I thought, on former videos the Emperors looked quite Nordic, now their depiction is most accurate!!
@@Perl_Kolesnikova1943 Northern Italians have "nordic" features
@@chombus2602 Yes, northern Italians' hair, eyes and skin are much ligther colored, but the previous reconstructions of Roman Emperors were almost all quite fair, and if I'm not wrong, many of the portraits of ancient Romans are more Mediterranean looking.
They look nothing like the statues.
Great work. thoroughly enjoyed it
The shelf life of an emperor then was very short.
Such handsome men! What a waste! Thank you for another magical journey back in time!
You are just amazing..please keep teaching history in this way. It is incredible!!!
This channel is so freaking awesome. The recreations are mesmerizing and the history lessons are outstanding.
Wow, thank you!
The amount of emperors murdered by the Praetorian Guard is astounding.
Like being a president against your special information agency or against your own military elites...J.F.Kennedy ??
Some must have been very goodlooking.
Very good. One of the very few of the daily uploaded new videos that is well made and quite informative. One "thumb up" from me and greetings from Cologne, Germany.
Much appreciated!
Excellent again
There was so much killing. I am so glad you made them so real looking. It is history and so interesting.
I am in awe, truly amazing!
What an amazing and fascinating job you did
Really outstanding restoration
And I thought my family was vicious!
Every one of these chaps looks like a londoner 😂
3:17 Diadumenian has a bigger upper lip, according to the statue and the coin?
shockingly spectacular! Too bad ancient Romans can't see this they would be like 😮
Great job . Thank you .When I can see part 2 of 3rd century and last the 4 century ?
This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen! Thank you for a great video :-)
Wow, thank you!
@@MysteryScoop You are so welcome, Sir. It must have taken forever to create this.
Graças à alta tecnologia e ao trabalho minucioso desses verdadeiros artistas, nós podemos hoje em dia, ter a sensação de contemplar a face desses Imperadores de Roma, como que em uma viagem no tempo, através de milênios de anos atrás.
Muito obrigada! 👏👏👏
Thank you!
Gordian II looks like Matteo Salvini, an italian politic, famous to stop the ships of immigrants in 2018
Ahah.. And I look like severus alexander
Sometimes they all look the same and the lips are mostly different even in the other videos but I am sure it will be better and better but in the end its also awesome how they maybe would look 👍
A lot of them were related.
That's what I'm thinking too 🤔
They're very impressive. Although he was never a Roman emperor...he didn't live long enough to have made it to Rome to possibly become one, maybe the 1st, but I'd love to see what the great Alexander may have looked like! Thank you for this remarkable and wondrous treat!
Awwwh...he just a baby 9yrs old . Rome was a very brutal and unapologetic place
I love it, but can you make the descriptions longer so we could read all of it and shorten the facial times? Thank you 😊
This technology is so cool, it's very fascinating seeing faces of the past brought back to life. It's also nice to get some info on these people, I've never heard of most of them.
Amazing!! Cheers from Chile!!
Thank you! Cheers!
I was thinking wouldn't it be great if these colorization experts teamed up with forensic reconstruction people that sculpt faces onto unidentified skulls to breathe just a bit more into identifying the unknown remains? I think it would possibly help the families or others recognize them a little easier.
Now get them all to sing "Video Killed the Radio Star"
they didn't leave face painting, but a statue for this. Good job, they have real R.I.P now :)
Gawd, you wouldn't want to be inline to be Emperor since most of them were murdered!! You wouldn't be able to sleep!!
Aww! Diadumenian looks like a cutie pie ❤️
A headless one at that.
Philip II 😍
What a sweet little face Diadumenian had! Poor kid!
This was a tough crowd! They just executed anyone they felt like
Yes,we need this practice today with government,presidents,congress, government officials!