Rönkkö’s find proved purely serendipitous. She was working with Center co-director Marc Walton to mount an exhibit of mummy portraits from first-century Egypt. Walton, research professor of materials ...

The background of the portraits made the researchers more intrigued about the objects. The pieces were brought from the Reverend Greville John Chester for £6. There were three fragments of mummy ...

Dr Warren thinks the best representations of how Jesus might have looked come from the Egyptian mummy portraits. These paintings were made of men who died between 80 and 120 AD in a similar part of ...

The important finds from his excavations include mummy portraits, gabled-roof coffins, traditional Egyptian-style coffins, and almost 30 new papyri in Greek and Demotic (the second to last stage of ...

In this unique one-time seminar, we will look at the role scientific examination plays in investigating the production of ancient Egyptian mummy portraits and how these objects fit into the larger ...