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 ...

Only a few Egyptian mummies have been found with an open mouth. A new study suggests an ancient Egyptian woman whose mummified remains were discovered in the 1930s may have died violently.

Night’s Mirror from the Owl series, the biggest piece on show, depicts a brown owl, in a long body, with its wide eyes and ...

Researchers take a whiff of ancient Egyptian mummified remains: "We were surprised at the pleasantness" February 14, 2025 / 8:50 AM EST / AP Archeologists discover oldest non-royal mummy ever in Egypt ...

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 ...

For example, Mann designed the sculpture’s hair and earrings herself, taking inspiration from the Fayum mummy portraits —realistic memorial portraits that Egyptians once buried with their dead.

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 ...

“ Face to Face: The People Behind the Mummy Portraits ” is on view at the Allard Pierson Museum, Oude Turfmarkt 127-129, Amsterdam, Netherlands, through May 20.

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 ...