Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detail of a Fayum funerary portrait that will go up for sale at Sotheby's New York as part of its Old Masters sales. - Courtesy ...

NEW YORK — A rare mummy portrait from Roman Egypt is set to be auctioned next week. This unique piece features a modern-looking man with hazel eyes and graying hair. According to a report from CNN, ...

Visitors to the Getty Villa in Los Angeles—the oceanside site of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities collection—have good reason to curse Theodosius as they gaze upon the sublime portrait of ...

You may have the chance to get an ancient mummy portrait from Roman Egypt that is heading to auction this week. That is, if you have around $350,000 to spend on it.

"This publication is issued in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from February 15-through May 7, 2000"--T.p. verso. Includes more than forty ...

(CNN) — A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair, sold for more than double its high estimate on Thursday ...