Archaeologists have discovered full-color portraits of Egyptian mummies in ancient Philadelphia

Dec 10 2022 by Business Insider

 
One portrait of a mummy discovered

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities

Archaeologists have uncovered the first full-color portraits of mummies in over a century.  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 have uncovered full-color portraits of mummies – the first to be found in over a century –

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