THE MYSTERIOUS FAYUM PORTRAITS: Faces from Ancient Egypt

Explore almost 200 portraits named for a district of Roman Egypt, whose people in the first three centuries AD included Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians and Jews. After embalming the bodies of their dead, they placed a painted portrait over the mummy, preserving the memory of each individual to an uncanny degree. 274 illustrations, 124 in color.