The nose might give the man up as a Roman; the substantial bridge being a feature of the Italian race still today.

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

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 ...

A rare mummy portrait from Roman Egypt is set to be auctioned next week. This unique piece features a modern-looking man with ...

A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

In the early first millennium, many mummies in Egypt were affixed with lifelike portraits showcasing the deceased's once-vivid eyes, styled hair and elaborate jewelry. Over the past few centuries, ...