fuckyeah-nerdery:

lord-kitschener:

terrasigillata:

shitface54:

museum-of-artifacts:

Reconstruction of bust of Roman emperor Caracalla.

Looks Middle Eastern/ African maybe even Greek. Interesting post.

His father, the emperor Septimius Severus, was North African (the first African emperor of Rome!), and his mother, Julia Domna, was Syrian, from a wealthy priestly family

#rome was a multiethnic empire

#there was literally an emperor named philip the arab