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YeOldeWelshman t1_ir2bzuc wrote

Take a look at Hans Holbein's portraits of the court of Henry VIII, which are some of the most accurate and lifelike portraits of humans at the time. It sorta blows my mind how those people from that age looked so much like people today, minus the attire. I know it's like "Well they're people what do you expect??", but it's just alien to me to think these people looked and probably acted EXACTLY like us modern folk.

https://imgc.artprintimages.com/img/print/portrait-of-a-young-merchant-supposedly-hans-von-muffel-from-nuremberg_u-l-q1i89340.jpg?artHeight=900&artPerspective=n&artWidth=900&background=fbfbfb

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FunnySynthesis t1_ir2ko0f wrote

I felt the same as you looking at these reconstructions. Its like it makes so much sense they look like us, but at the same time it really shocked me.

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ThunderEcho100 t1_irgi4r3 wrote

Is really be interested in hearing them speak though. Even if i couldn’t understand old English etc. that would be fascinating to me.

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spaceeeeeeeeeeeeeeee t1_ir3tmw3 wrote

The portrait of Willem van Oranje (1554) looks far more life-like and modern.

https://historiek.net/wp-content/uploads-phistor1/2016/01/Willem-van-Oranje-geschilderd-door-Anthonie-Mor-omstreeks-1554.jpg

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Odie4Prez t1_ir51im8 wrote

.........he single? 😳

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sevenlabors t1_ir5ehta wrote

Well... my dude here ended up with four wives, because two died, one cheated on him and had a baby with their lawyer, and the last one was only married to him for a year or two before he was shot and assassinated, sooooo...

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Boofer2 t1_ir3bot8 wrote

I really don't get how this is surprising, there were people that looked just like me 30,000 years ago.

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ThunderEcho100 t1_irgibj0 wrote

I don’t think it’s surprising as much as it makes you pause in awe of.

Like to the earth that was yesterday, to society. 500 years ago was a different world.

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qwertycantread t1_ir4dz0i wrote

Read Greek and Roman literature. People are exactly the same as they have always been. Any differences are purely cosmetic.

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