The portraits, created during Egypt's Roman period (30 B.C. to A.D. 395), often depict individuals with European heritage, who moved to the area following Alexander the Great's rule, ...

“Sculpted Portraits from Ancient Egypt” opened at the Getty Villa Museum on Jan. 24. The exhibition will remain in L.A. until Jan 25. 2027. (The Trustees of the British Museum) Obsession with our own ...

The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt leans into this enigma, offering a fresh opportunity to reflect on how much we know — and don’t know — about these extraordinary works.

Researchers found the two full portraits of Egyptian mummies and fragments of others at the Gerza excavation site in Fayoum, Egypt, making these artworks the first of their kind to be discovered ...

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 ...

A huge 2,300-year-old funerary building and a number of mummy portraits were discovered in Egypt's southern province of Fayoum, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) south of Cairo, the country's ...

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.

Known for its striking cerulean hue, this dye was first created circa 3250 B.C.E. and was soon used throughout the ancient ...

In 2012, the Egyptian photographer Rehab Eldalil began photographing the Bedouin Jebeleya tribe, whose ancestors have lived in the foothills of Mt. Sinai, in Egypt, for more than a thousand years ...