In the late 19th century and early 20th century, British egyptologist Flinders Petrie excavated at least 150 mummy portraits at a Roman necropolis in in Fayoum's archeological site of Hawara.

The display of mummy portraits in North America and Europe is extensive. Collectively, there are around 1,000 ancient portraits generally from the Fayum region of Roman Egypt.

These changes in Fayum society are reflected in Roman period mummy portraits. “Romano-Egyptian mummy portraits represent a melting pot of cultures,” says Svoboda, noting that they blend the ...

The Greco-Roman tradition had no problem about mixing in classical motifs. So in addition to representations of the Egyptian funerary gods, shrouds and mummy cases might depict figures in Roman dress.

Using CT scans and digital wizardry, researchers of a study published in PLOS One have reconstructed the face of a 3- to 4-year-old boy that was mummified during the Greco-Roman period (332 BC-395 ...

The portraits, created during Egypt's Roman period (30 B.C. to A.D. 395), often depict individuals with European heritage, who moved to the area following Alexander the Great's rule, the ...

What’s more, the mummy paintings existed in scholarship limbo, falling somewhere between classifications of Roman and Egyptian art. They’d been made in a time of great cultural melding in ...

One portrait of a mummy discovered Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities 2022-12-10T15:04:12Z Share ... (305–30 B.C.) through to the Roman era ...

This so-called "mummy portrait" was part of a popular tradition among some Egyptians in Greco-Roman times, from about the first through the third centuries A.D.

Inside a sprawling research building at Argonne National Laboratory, a collection of scientists, researchers and art curators assembled Monday to unravel the mysteries of a mummy.The ancient Roman ...

What’s more, the mummy paintings existed in scholarship limbo, falling somewhere between classifications of Roman and Egyptian art. They’d been made in a time of great cultural melding in ...