Archaeologists have discovered Fayum portraits of mummies made with wax paints for the first time in 115 years, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reported.
Two complete and two incomplete portraits, along with mummies, were found at the site of an ancient monument, a cemetery that existed from 259-257 BC in Philadelphia, Egypt. to. Until the V-VI centuries.
All written on linen savannas. According to scholars, people buried in Philadelphia in this context belong to the upper middle class or elite.
Such portraits were very expensive, not everyone could afford them. The authors of the study are confident that they were written by artists from Alexandria, an Egyptian city on the Mediterranean coast.
Scientists also found papyrus and Greek inscriptions, as well as statues of the goddess of love. The papyri contain information about the social, economic and religious conditions of the people living in the region.
Source: Port Altele
