There were three fragments of mummy portraits in total ... The collection had three fragments of the Fayum portraits, dating around the 5th to 6th century A.D. One of the pieces was documented ...

The images seem to allow us to gaze directly into the ancient world. “The Fayum portraits have an almost disturbing lifelike quality and intensity,” says Euphrosyne Doxiadis, an artist who ...

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 ...