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It's those 2000 year old photos that I hanker for. :) 200 years ago is magical, 2000 years ago would be incredible. Oh, to peruse the stinky streets of Herculaneum!

Gosh, I hope humanity can keep it up for another 2000 years, keeping out heritage and history well-recorded.

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well we have something better than photos from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians -- sculpture! ex. the bust of nefertiti (~1345 BC)

or a mummy

Artists rendition.

When I look at the bust of Nefertiti I like to imagine Nefertiti saying something like "destroy it, make the nose a little smaller, then execute the artist".

To be fair, that'd just as likely be true of a photograph as well. People in the digital age forget how much artistic freedom is granted by staging a photograph and later processing it in the darkroom.

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