Researchers also uncovered a funerary building, records written on papyrus, pottery, and coffins. The finds date from the Ptolemaic period (305–30 B.C.) through to the Roman era (30 B.C.—390 A.D.).

Egyptian archaeologists completing their 10th season of excavations at Gerza, 75 miles southwest of modern day Cairo, have announced the excavation of two full mummy portraits and further fragmentary ...

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Fayum portraits are a type of ancient Roman paintings crafted as funerary effigies in and around the Fayum oasis, southwest of Cairo. The portraits, which were placed on mummies, are a funerary custom ...