Unrecorded artist, “Mummy Portrait of Aline” (1st–2nd ... How do they fit into the larger picture of art history? The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt leans into this ...

They also used computational imaging to determine that the paint was textured and thick, typical of encaustic painting (pigment mixed with beeswax) associated with mummy portraits from the Fayum ...

One of the most notable applications of encaustic painting in antiquity was the creation of Fayum mummy portraits in Roman Egypt during the 1st to 3rd centuries CE. These stunningly realistic ...