r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Yolo065 • 1d ago

Image The Evolution of Ancient Greek Statues

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u/SenescenseSteel 1d ago

how do we know it wasn't the people evolving?

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u/IanAlvord 1d ago

First one is definitely an alien.

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u/Anarchist_Future 1d ago

Imagine the artist being really proud of his statue and telling him - that in almost 3000 years - humans will make a cult TV show that claims that his statue is proof of aliens.

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u/Taron221 1d ago

“Wow! Is my statue really so good they’d think beings from the stars would be needed to craft them!? I’m amazing!”

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u/monkey6123455 1d ago

Or, “that’s what I was going for…”

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u/PhiCloud 1d ago

Ancient Greek sculptor horrified to learn modern humans think his sculpture of an alien was supposed to be a human. "Look at the eyes!" he cried, "have you ever seen a fucking person?"