Quote Originally Posted by Meneldil
This is out of topic, but I'm fairly sure I already saw ancient paintings of the Prophet in some History books. How is it possible ?
I think the Iranian Safavids made some illustrations of the Prophet, but not with his face shown. There are also some famous Turkish illustrations, but again his face is disguised, I don’t remember what they are called, though. Depicting the Prophet is strongly discouraged.

Indeed, I must apologize for this off-topic debate.