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.

Most portraits and self-portraits reflect an air of sadness and uncertainty. A self-portrait from the Lamentation series is ...

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.

Report on ancient skulls extracted from Egyptian mummies a hundred years ago, reunited with painted portraits, at the British Museum. A major exhibition of mummy portraits, "Ancient Faces", has been ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

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 ...

Sarcophagus lids, a Greco-Roman portrait and fragments of what is believed to be a temple of Queen Hatshepsut were among 25 rare artifacts returned to Egypt from the United States, the Egyptian ...

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 ...