Best Selfie Angle: Your left cheek or right cheek? Ancient portraits reveal

Other doubts were also raised saying that this is just probably a Western habit as Western languages read from left to right.

“Surveys of portraits in Egypt (where texts read right to left) turned up a healthy majority of left-facing portraits as well,” Sam Kean said. He also said that this goes also with children who haven’t had influences yet as the majority of them, especially those who are right-handed, draw people facing left.