During the Graeco-Roman period, from 332 BC until around 400 AD, a custom of certain Ancient Egyptian burials was to place a portrait on the mummy's head.

This single portrait, however, doesn't reveal whether it was a common practice for ancient Egyptian artists to make younger people look older in their mummy portraits. Child-size mummy. Of the ...

Egyptians applied a new approach to mummies during the Roman-dominated era from the first through third centuries A.D. These mummies featured portraits of the deceased held in place by the linens ...

While ancient Egyptian mummy portraits have long been objects of curiosity, only a minimal amount of scholarship exists about them. Many questions have lingered since they were uncovered by ...

The mummy portrait (left) pictured next to the model produced by Nerlich AG et. al (2020). The researchers now believe that some mummy portraits depicted the likeness of the person contained ...

EVANSTON, ILLINOIS—A Northwestern University team led by archaeological scientist Marc Walton has carried out a cutting-edge study of 15 Romano-Egyptian mummy portraits from the site of Tebtunis ...

Egyptian archaeologists completing their 10th season of excavations at Gerza, 75 miles southwest of modern day Cairo, have announced the excavation of two full mummy portraits and further ...

Egyptian blue was used in Roman-era Egyptian portraits placed on mummies, even though the man-made pigment isn't visible to the naked eye.

Mostly untouched for 100 years, 15 Roman-era Egyptian mummy portraits and panel paintings were literally dusted off by scientists and art conservators from Northwestern University and the Phoebe A ...

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine is celebrating the acquisition of a hauntingly lovely mummy portrait, made 2,000 years ago somewhere on the Nile River.

Portrait of a Youth with a Gilded Wreath That Once Covered a Mummy Now on View. The Bowdoin College Museum of Art recently added to its collections an Egyptian portrait created nearly 2,000 years ago.

With Face to Face: The People Behind Mummy Portraits, the Allard Pierson is presenting the first exhibition about ancient Egyptian mummy portraits in the Netherlands. Besides items from our own ...