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2. Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia

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   Ancient sources indicate that panel painting rather than wall painting (i.e., painting on wood or other mobile surfaces) was held in high regard, but very few ancient panel paintings survive. One of the few examples besides the mummy portraits is the Severan Tondo , also from Egypt (around 200), which, like the mummy portraits, is believed to ...

3. Women in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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   Through her connection to ancient Egypt, she has an aura of mystery for spectators, the same aura that surrounds ancient Egypt and its esoteric aspects, the same mysteriousness linked in the popular imagination with ancient curses of mummies, or other secrets of the tombs. Presented this way, Egyptian women become a sort of seductress ...

4. Painting of Lady Tjepu - Wikipedia

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   The Painting of Lady Tjepu is a fragment from a large fresco from Tomb 181 in Thebes . It dates to the 18th Dynasty reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. The painting depicts an elegantly dressed woman with much jewelry. She holds her head upright and faces straight ahead, her right arm is bent and held up, her left is held at hip height.

5. Art of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Egyptian art refers to art produced in ancient Egypt between the 6th millennium BC and the 4th century AD, spanning from Prehistoric Egypt until the Christianization of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media. It was a conservative tradition whose ...

6. Colorful paintings of daily life uncovered in 4,300-year-old ...

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   Archaeologists have discovered paintings of daily life in ancient Egypt in a tomb dating back more than 4,300 years. Colorful paintings of daily life uncovered in 4,300-year-old Egyptian tomb Skip ...

7. Portraiture in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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   Nefertiti bust, from the 18th dynasty, New kingdom Egyptian death mask from the 18th dynasty. Louvre, Paris portrait of Meritamun, 19th dynasty of Egypt. Portraiture in ancient Egypt forms a conceptual attempt to portray "the subject from its own perspective rather than the viewpoint of the artist ... to communicate essential information about the object itself". [1]

8. Egyptian Screaming Woman mummy ‘died wailing in pain 3,000 ...

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   An ancient Egyptian mummy who was found wearing a black wig and had a “screaming” face may have died wailing in pain around 3,000 years ago, scientists believe. ... The Screaming Woman was ...

9. Scans help solve a 3,000-year-old mystery of a high-status ...

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   Preparing for the afterlife “Inside Ancient Egypt” is one of the most popular exhibits at the museum and includes a three-story replica of a type of tomb called a mastaba.The tomb’s burial ...