Director General of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square Sabah Abdel Razeq said that he is currently studying the relocation of Fayum mummy portraits at the hall of the royal mummies to the National ...
Yahoo: See gorgeous ancient Egyptian 'mummy portraits' from nearly 2 millennia ago
The Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Gerza archaeological site in Fayoum uncovered a huge funerary building from the Ptolemaic and Roman eras. Some of these were models of Fayum mummy ...
Barring the invention of a time machine, the Fayum portraits are the closest us 21st-century humans will ever get to standing face to face with people who walked this planet more than two millennia ...
Fayum portraits are a type of ancient Roman paintings crafted as funerary effigies in and around the Fayum oasis, southwest of Cairo. The portraits, which were placed on mummies, are a funerary custom ...
For the first time in over a century, amazing life-like mummy portraits depicting ancient people have been found in Egypt. A collection of extremely rare mummy portraits was discovered by ...
While ancient Egyptian mummy portraits have long been objects of curiosity, only a minimal amount of scholarship exists about them. Many questions have lingered since they were uncovered by ...
In this video from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s ‘The Artist Project’ series, Iranian artist Y.Z. Kami reflects on the arresting power of ancient Egyptian Fayum portraits. ‘The Artist Project’ ...
This enigmatic short film presents fifty Egyptian funerary portraits from the region of Fayum. Painted during Roman rule between 100 and 300 A.D., these striking, psychological works were executed in ...