An aquiline nose is a human nose with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent. The word aquiline comes from the Latin word aquilinus ("eagle-like"), an allusion to the curved beak of an eagle. While some have ascribed the aquiline nose to specific ethnic, racial, or geographic groups, and in some cases associated it with other supposed non-physical characteristics, no scientific studies or evidence support any such linkage. As with many phenotypical expressions it is found in many geographically diverse populations.
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Mummy of the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh and father of Merneptah, Ramses II with an aquiline, "hook nose"
Head of a bodhisattva, a depiction of Aquiline noses in Greco-Buddhist art of the ancient Gandhara civilisation of South Asia
The Mediterranean race is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. According to writers of the late 19th to mid-20th centuries it was a sub-race of the Caucasian race. According to various definitions, it was said to be prevalent in the Mediterranean Basin and areas near the Mediterranean, especially in Southern Europe, North Africa, most of West Asia, the Middle East or Near East; western Central Asia, parts of South Asia, and parts of the Horn of Africa. To a lesser extent, certain populations of people in Ireland, western parts of Great Britain, and Southern Germany, despite living far from the Mediterranean, were thought to have some minority Mediterranean elements in their population, such as Bavaria, Wales, and Cornwall.
Irishman of Mediterranean type, from Augustus Henry Keane's Man, Past and Present (1899).
An Englishman from Devon given as an example of the Mediterranean type of the Caucasoid race by 19th century race theorist William Z. Ripley's The Races of Europe (1899).
