QUOTE(Bottled_Spider @ Thu 5th April 2012, 4:36am)
You mean you actually thought there could be contemporary portraits, done in a presumably realistic style, of someone who was born in 570 ACE? Wow.
There are several 5th century BCE Greek philosophers with multiple extant 2-D and 3-D depictions which are similar enough that it's safe to say most people would agree they look like the same person. Not Anaxagoras, though. For some reason he looks different in every depiction.
I agree that the Jesus article shouldn't have depictions either. At least Jesus gets a series of very lengthy articles contemplating every possible aspect of his historicity, historical reliability, mythology, and comparative mythology. Muhammad, Moses, Noah, Abraham, Buddha, et al. don't have anything like that.