Meresamun was a high-ranking priestess who had the ability to calm the gods with her singing voice, and a new reconstruction ...

The mummified head, reconstructed by a forensic sculptor, belonged to a woman who lived in Egypt during the region's Greco-Roman period, between 332 B.C.E. and 395 C.E. Jennifer Mann For over a ...

This male portrait, painted circa A.D. 250 on limewood, was purchased in the early 1800s by Henry Salt, the British vice-consul in Egypt, making it one of the earliest Fayum portraits recovered in ...

Mummy portraits, often painted on wooden panels, were made during the Roman period in Egypt, from the 1st to the 4th century AD, and placed over the faces of mummified persons.

A collection of extremely rare colour portraits of ancient mummies have been discovered in Egypt, painted directly onto the 2,000-year-old caskets of their owners ...

Flinders Petrie, an English archaeologist was the last to find similar artwork, he discovered 146 mummy portraits at a Roman cemetery in 1911, according to Artnet News.

English archaeologist Flinders Petrie was the last to find similar artwork when he discovered 146 mummy portraits at a Roman cemetery in 1911, Artnet News reports.

Archaeologists have uncovered the first full-color portraits of mummies in over a century. Researchers also uncovered a funerary building, records written on papyrus, pottery, and coffins. The finds ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the first full-color portraits of mummies in over a century. Researchers also uncovered a funerary building, records written on papyrus, pottery, and coffins. The finds ...

However, the new mummy portraits are undeniably the dig's most groundbreaking discovery-the first to appear since English archaeologist Flinders Petrie found 146 such portraits at a Roman cemetery ...

"The cemetery was looted in the 1880s for Roman mummy portraits, most of which were sold to the Viennese dealer and collector Theodor Graf," Susan Walker, an honorary curator of the Ashmolean ...