Passport Photo

One of the earliest known reference of a passport was in the Persian empire in about 450 BC, it is said that, an official serving the King in Persia, asked  to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and gave him a letter requesting safe travel for him as he went through their country.

However King Henry V of England is credited mainly helping with the popularity of the passport. Giving his subjects written proof on paper to take with them to foreign countries to prove who they were and to keep them safe.

Passports can come in all different colors and are often written in the countries language a person is from.

Passport photos are now used not just for passports but for a lot of other government issue Identification cards as well as driving licenses across the world. The main points for a passport are to tell the country your traveling too which country your from, what nationality you are, your age, gender and birth date as well as Photographic ID given to you by your own countries government which says you are who the identification says you are.

An example of the driving license identification.

Another example of Identification, a passport.
 

 Passports are commonly used in every country to be able to travel abroad from one country to another freely. Identification has become very important in modern day societies as without ID people can become vulnerable to such things as fraud, theft, their identities being stolen and such.