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This is fantastic. Some of the reconstructions look convincingly italian. There is a slight bias towards making their faces more square than they are in statues (and probably RL too), e.g. Caligula.

It's interesting to think that these emperors would find the obsession with exact skin tones in the comments here rather weird.

Also, with great power comes a brutal way to die.




Fairly regularly at the hands of your own bodyguards, going by some of the later entries.




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