The mummies of the Graeco-Roman era often feature a "mish-mash of images", says Price. So, the show features a mummy labelled with a Greek name – Artemidorus ...

A huge 2,300-year-old funerary building and a number of mummy portraits were discovered in Egypt's southern province of Fayoum, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) south of Cairo, the country's ...

Several mummies with gold tongues have been ... the Ptolemaic period (332–30 B.C.) and the Roman period (30 B.C.-641 A.D.). The mummies that the archaeologists found feature pieces of ...

A joint Egyptian-Italian team discovered Graeco-Roman tombs with intact mummies and hieroglyphics near Aswan’s Aga Khan ...

Archaeologists have unearthed several ancient tombs with dozens of mummies—including some with golden tongues. ... The Roman period ended around A.D. 641 when Arab forces conquered Egypt.

Mummies with gold tongues have been found elsewhere in Egypt, including at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site on the Mediterranean coast, and Oxyrhynchus, an archaeological site located about ...

The Mummy --Roman Period, (painting) Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. Object Details artist Alma Tadema, L. Notes Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 166 A.R.A. [P. 64; ...

Mummification was a sacred—and fragrant—practice for ushering ancient Egyptian elite into the afterlife. For thousands of years, from roughly 2600 B.C.E. until the Arab conquest of Egypt in ...