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Galba (Artistic Facial Reconstruction)
A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Galba (r. 68-69 CE) may have looked like. Pictured alongside the reconstruction are the Capitoline bust of Galba and the bust from the Stockholm Museum of Antiquities, used as references...

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Caligula (Artistic Facial Reconstruction of Met Portrait)
A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 CE) may have looked like, based on an idealized marble portrait bust from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Made using Photoshop and Artbreeder, a neural net tool.

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Caligula (Artistic Facial Reconstruction)
A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Caligula (r. 37-41 CE) may have looked like. Pictured alongside the reconstruction are the busts and statuary used as references. Louvre bust (top left) is the primary reference...

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Nero (Artistic Facial Reconstruction)
A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Nero (r. 54-68 CE) may have looked like. Pictured alongside the reconstruction are the artworks and statuary used as references. From left to right and top to bottom these are the...

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Claudius (Artistic Facial Reconstruction)
A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Claudius (r. 41-54 CE) may have looked like. Pictured alongside the reconstruction are the busts and statuary used as references. From left to right and top to bottom these are the...

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Tiberius (Artistic Facial Reconstruction)
A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37 CE) may have looked like. Pictured alongside the reconstruction are the busts and statuary used as references. From left to right and top to bottom these are the...

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Augustus (Artistic Facial Reconstruction)
A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Augustus (r. 27 BCE-14 CE) may have looked like as a young man. Pictured alongside the reconstruction are the busts and statuary used as references. From left to right and top to bottom...

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Augustus (Aged Artistic Facial Reconstruction)
A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Augustus (r. 27 BCE-14 CE) may have looked like as a middle-aged man. Pictured alongside the reconstruction are the busts and statuary used as references. From left to right and top...

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Augustus (Composite Artistic Facial Reconstruction)
A photorealistic representation of what the Roman emperor Augustus (r. 27 BCE-14 CE) may have looked like as a young man. Based on contemporary and near contemporary descriptions, as well as archaeological evidence such as the Augustus of...

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Unicorn from the Rochester Bestiary
This image is from a medieval bestiary known as the Rochester Bestiary (c. 1230 CE), currently held at the British Library in London. Popular in the Middle Ages, bestiaries were illustrated manuscripts containing descriptions of plants, rocks...