Ancient Beauty and Body Art from Four Continents explores how people from four cultures, distant in geography and history, altered and enhanced their appearances to conform to, or deviate from, their societies’ expectations. Portraits and other images of people from New Kingdom Egypt (16th – 11th century BC), Early Imperial Rome (1st century BC – 2nd century AD), Classic Maya culture (AD 250 – 950), Tang Dynasty China (AD 618 – 907) do not necessarily show us how real, historical people looked…