The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

Scans of 2,000-year-old mummy show ancient Egyptian lived with back pain - Analysis revealed facial features, including shapes of eyelids and lower lips of mummies ...

A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt will go up for sale next week, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair. The painting is one of 900 or so known ...

A Roman Egyptian 'Fayum' mummy portrait, over 1,000 years older than Renaissance art, heads to Sotheby’s NYC auction, expected to fetch over $350,000.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detail of a Fayum funerary portrait that will go up for sale at Sotheby's New York as part of its Old Masters sales. - Courtesy ...