To accompany their story on the history of the chicken as food item, Smithsonian magazine dressed up a few birds as historical figures. Spanning the 10,000 years since the chicken has been used in a culinary capacity, we get the poultry version of anyone from Julius Caesar and Abe Lincoln, to Napoleon and Albert Einstein. There’s even General Tso — because Smithsonian likes its chicken spicy.

[photos by Timothy Archibald, see more historical chickens here]