The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt
July 26th, 2010 by admin
The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513JDKS613L._SL160_.jpg The Fayum portraits were created by the people of a flourishing district of Roman Egypt during the first three centuries AD. In the old Egyptian tradition, these people embalmed the bodies of their dead, but then they placed over the mummy, a painted portrait to preserve [...]
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