Faiyum Mummies: Long Lost Secrets Of A Mummy’s Portrait

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – This remarkable painting comes from the second century when Egypt was a Roman province, hence the portraits are more lifelike and less hieroglyphic-like than Egyptian art of previous eras. Known as “Portrait of a Bearded Man,” the painting contained the purple pigment that came from an Egyptian mummy, but it […]