Or maybe they were more active and ate more sensibly than we do. 🏃➡️🏃♀️➡️🏃♂️➡️🦈🫛🥕🥒🏃🏃♂️🏃♀️
But the upper class guys.... eh. They look nice in the painting and carvings but their mummies tell on their less active, more food lifestyle.
Not "My 3000 Deben Life" (I hope I did the math right on that) but definitely some chubby wubbys.
Of course there is also that the upper class tended to live longer then the peasants and as we get older we tend to spread.
Gravity. It hates us it does.