For the first time in 50 years, archaeologists have discovered Fayum mummy portraits at an ancient Egyptian site.
Archaeologists have discovered ancient mummies buried with stunning, lifelike portraits of the deceased. The mummies were interred in a cemetery at the ancient city of Philadelphia in Egypt, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Dec 1.
During excavations at the ancient site's necropolis, archaeologists unearthed two complete mummy portraits, along with semi-complete and incomplete portraits, Basem Gehad , director of the ancient Philadelphia necropolis excavation mission, told Live Science in an email.
"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 Museum at the University of Oxford, told Live Science in an email."He catalogued and organised exhibitions of them world-wide, with the result that the portraits are now dispersed in museum and private collections, principally throughout America and Europe.
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