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Fayyum mummy portraits is the modern term for these realistically painted funerary portraits on wooden boards attached to mummies from Roman Egypt.
Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future 2010
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I give you the wax-encaustic funerary portraits of the Fayyum.
Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future 2010
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In Egypt, in the Fayyum, in the many surviving wax-encaustic portraits on sarcophagi, there is a message to us.
Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future 2010
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Now, in contrast, see the 3rd century Fayyum portraits of men, women and children.
Michael Vlahos: America: Enemy of Change, Midwife of the Future 2010
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CAIRO AFP - A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt's Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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The local director of antiquities, Ahmed Abdel Alim, said the site was just seven kilometres four miles from Fayyum lake and would probably have lain at the water's edge at the time it was inhabited.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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Egypt's Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on
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The tourist police in Fayyum are now trying to work out exactly how old the artefacts are and who the mummies are.
Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008
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The local director of antiquities, Ahmed Abdel Alim, said the site was just seven kilometres (four miles) from Fayyum lake and would probably have lain at the water's edge at the time it was inhabited.
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Bey proved, upon the Fayyum, the most ancient Delta of the
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