Most antiquities scholars think that the New Testament gospels are "mythologized history." In other words, based on the evidence available they think that around the start of the first century a controversial Jewish rabbi named Yeshua ben Yosef gathered a following and his life and teachings provide...
You kid, but for the first several hundred years the concept of the bearded Jesus didn’t exist either.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depiction_of_Jesus