A huge 2,300-year-old funerary building and a number of mummy portraits were discovered in Egypt's southern province of Fayoum, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) south of Cairo, the country's antiquities ...
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Egyptian archaeologists completing their 10th season of excavations at Gerza, 75 miles southwest of modern day Cairo, have announced the excavation of two full mummy portraits and further fragmentary ...
Archaeologists Have Unearthed the First Full-Color Portraits of Egyptian Mummies in More Than a Century
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insider.si.edu: Un portrait du Fayoum dans les collections Barbier-Mueller = A Fayum portrait in the Barbier-Mueller collection / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter
Un portrait du Fayoum dans les collections Barbier-Mueller = A Fayum portrait in the Barbier-Mueller collection / Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter
Zoom in to see all the locations featured in this story. Kept verdant by Lake Qarun, Fayoum feels like a throwback to another era. In thriving fields, water buffalo graze and egrets nest. Residents ...
There is a physical sense of time slowing down as you leave behind the density of Cairo’s traffic-choked streets, and hit the road on your way to the town of Fayoum. The noise, a chaotic symphony of ...