Fayum Portraits of Ancient Egyptians #Shorts #minidocumentary

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While the ancient Egyptians held strong their beliefs in afterlife for millennia , their burial habits evolved from using mastabas, then pyramids then to the Valley of the Kings’ tombs and during the first to third centuries AD they used necropolises with mummies painted portraits on wood covering their faces. These are called the Fayum portraits. About 900 mummies were found across Egypt but most were found in the Fayum Basin. Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. They are amazing because they seem very vivid as they really look at you. Most of them are very young and some raised the question of if they were painted during their life in preparation for their future. Scholars did CT scans on these mummies, and they established they did die young. While some may say these belong to the Greeks , scholars agreed they belonged to the ancient Egyptians most likely. Greeks did not use mummification. Therefore, the Fayum portraits are giving valuable info about the ancient Egyptians. And

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Fayum Portraits of Ancient Egyptians #Shorts #minidocumentary

[yunhosmile]

The Greeks had a huge impact on ancient Egypt bc of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, who were actually Greek (cleopatra being the last of her kind).

[oblivionwalker]

The looks in their eyes are just so real

[morganstarchild]

No mummies were ever found inside any pyramids.

[pablitoramos]

Egyptian, Romans and Greeks are one type of blood. RH-negative

[SonyaOutThere]

Just to put things in perspective. Most people died young (by today’s standards) in ancient times. Life spans were considerably shorter.

[The_Truth-]

The only thing Fayium is giving, is a more detailed look of what foreigners and invaders looked like. Because these portraits are not what ancient Egyptians looked like.

[leamisigaro]

A lot of inconsistencies they were transplanted Greeks .... Because when Greeks lived amongst the Egyptians they adopted the practice as well as their d So there is that ...

[rogerroger]

Egyptians didn't look like bleks, i'm sorry africanists.
Good video.

[edwinhenry]

Those portraits are not of ancient Egyptians. Many people skip over the fact Egyptians allowed Greeks to live and be educated in Egypt. Being found in Egypt does not mean they are Egyptians.

[deephillips]

That was really interesting and thank you BUT next time please would you consider putting the writing somewhere else on the page rather than right in the middle !?
They look similar in style to portraits found on Pompeii

[LordDirus]

Some look Arab, Puerto Rican or Jewish. So they looked Mediterranean. Gives you a clue what Jesus looked like.

[marcfrancois]

This post is misleading!!! These paintings aren’t how The people of Kemet( land of the blacks) looked like. Those who built the pyramids and developed Egypt did not look like that. The INVADERS of Egypt looked like that. Those who showed up after everything had been built to take it.

[graypublishing]

You have to remember the Greeks and Roman, took over Egypt, these are definitely Roman

[josephtobin]

Why did you stupidly obstruct the view of their faces by that unnecessary texting? It was really irritating. You marred an otherwise engrossing video.

[joliet]

Fayoum Portraits"... Egyptian faces that lived 2000 years ago

It has more than 900 paintings
It has been described as the oldest depiction of the human face
They were found attached to mummies in the Fayoum area
It was discovered in 1615 by the Italian traveler Pietro della Valle.
It settles in the Albertinum halls of the Museum of Modern Art in Dresden, Germany
Fayoum faces were not just traditional funerary drawings
Rather, personal drawings show the features of the person buried inside the coffin
The French philosopher and novelist André Malraux described them as faces looking forward to eternal life
I think they are real faces that match reality
Or as if it represents a middle area between life and death.
Do you now know thief of civilization, why it is impossible to steal the civilization of our ancestors, because they were always so clever that they depicted themselves and their enemies on murals, and left us many, many of them

[j.t.]

Ancient Egyptians we're not white. They were not from Europe. They were from Africa.

[moxietovani]

They must have had some had big eye filters.

[maxjulianc]

Never let the klan tell your story, it becomes his story.

[kamenneikoo]

Egyptians arent dark skinned black. And when these were painted egypt had a lot of roman influences in art and clothing