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 ...

Art & Exhibitions A New Show Offers Face Time With Ancient Egyptian Funeral Portraits "Face to Face" at Amsterdam’s Allard Pierson Museum charts the history of the famed Fayum portraits.

The Allard Pierson is launching an international study of twelve mummy portraits, two from its own collection and ten from partner museums in Europe, with the help of advanced analysis techniques.

Egyptian mummies in the Field Museum of Natural History, perennial favorites for museum goers, tell a deeper story about Egyptian beliefs of an arftelife. Artifacts directly associated with mummies, ...

Archeologists discover oldest non-royal mummy ever in Egypt 01:31. At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse.. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the ...

Scientists reveal new details about ‘screaming’ Egyptian mummy’s life and death By Katie Hunt, CNN 5 min read Published 12:05 AM EDT, Fri August 2, 2024 ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...