Comments by "Ponto" (@Ponto-zv9vf) on "Why Modern Italians look like the Roman Empire" video.

  1. I say modern Italians even Northern Italians and Swiss Italians are shifted to the east. It doesn't affect what the modern Italians look like, but it is there in the dna.
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  2. The Mediterranean look is a catchall. The reality is that Europeans, Near Easterners and North Africans are different in looks. Europeans from Britain and Germany that wanted to go into Arabia, visit Mecca, Medina, old sites in the Near East in the old days just dressed and acted like Arabs, spoke Arabic and had no problems. West Eurasians tend to look like each other just not identically.
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  3. I have 7 siblings and don't look like them. I have dna tested and am my parents' child.
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  4. It is old Greek, pre Slavic, more like the people of Crete and some of the Greek islands. Greek mainlanders are like their Balkan neighbors. And in Sicily there were native peoples, the Sicels, the Elymians and the Sicani.
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  5. Julius Caesar had a distinctive look, the receding hair, the cheekbones.
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  6. I consider the differences between Northern and Southern Italians are exaggerated, frankly the look similar to me. As to pigmentation, they are different from the extreme Northwest Europeans who are ruddier, are paler, and the eyes are often blue or green, the hair lighter than the browns of Italy. Most Northern Italians have dark hair, and brown eyes, and are not ruddy. True in the borderlands, people who spoke German or French or Slovenian there may be some the approximate NW Europeans in pigmentation, but even going into the countries surrounding Italy there are many of darker pigmentation. An ancient Roman would stick out today because they would be slimmer, and shorter than modern Italians. I would say the looks of Italians compared to ancient Romans, Etruscans, Samnites, Greeks and Gauls probably are quite similar, but genetically the modern Italians are shifted slightly towards the east. There was a huge number of Greek speaking immigrants to Rome and its empire from Anatolia and Syria, and most of them stayed and interbred with the old Italians. You cannot deny the dna results from the different periods of Italy. The pre Imperial Romans were like modern Central and North Italians, the Imperial Romans shifted towards Anatolia and Syria, post Imperial Italians are like Southern Italians.
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  7. He would probably be speaking to your chest, they weren't tall those Romans.
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  8. I lived in an suburb full of Italians in Australia, and lived in Italy for some time, I see little difference north or south. I think in the USA, and Australia the coming of short, suntanned, dark haired and eyed people was shocking. Australians of old weren't Nordic Gods but they as a rule did not have dark hair, dark eyes, a non ruddy complexion and tanned slightly.
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  9. Was he meant to be a Northerner or just a lighter Italian?
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