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The Boukoleon Palace

Full image + Column of Justinian in the Background with Statue of Theodosius on it

"Parade of the Dead under the Arc de Triomphe" by Georges Bertin Scott

My maternal grandmother's father (Great Grandfather) carried haplogroup E-V13 (found out because my second cousin tested for it). Could be the legacy of Seleucid colonization, or Seapeoples or something else 🤷‍♂️

@8EyedEel

@libanotica70 ya'll are reading too much into the headdress as distinctly Arab. if the kids are putting on a play about biblical figures it makes sense to wear as a lot of biblical figures would wear such headdress were practical because of the heat.

@UpdatingOnRome @Hentity_NR

@shaolinalan Elian al-Homsi = Julian of Emesa. How can one name be so based in two languages at the same time?

Faces of the Roman world
1) Italians from Pompeii (60 AD)
2) Egyptians from Fayum Mummies (1st cent. BC - 3rd cent. AD)
3) The Christ Pantocrator St. Catherine’s Monastery, one of the oldest depictions of Christ. Can be used as proxy for what a Levantine looked like. (500s AD)

Carthaginian visiting a now very Hellenized Tyre circa 200 BC