Faiyum

They represent Greek settlers in Egypt (another lie). I say this because 80% of the faces are SOOOO Egyptian. You see a person who resembles one of these faces in an Airport in mid-west United States, and you would immediately approach them and start a conversation with him or her starting with "Where from Egypt are you?" and he will turn out an Egyptian with no exception! The dental morphology of the Roman-period Faiyum mummies was also compared with that of earlier Egyptian populations, and was found to be "much more closely akin" to that of dynastic Egyptians than to Greeks or other European populations. According to Walker (2000), "CAT scans of all the complete mummies represented reveal a correspondence of age and, in suitable cases, sex between mummy and image, confirming that the paintings were made at the time of death. In addition, some portraits were painted directly onto the coffin; for example, on a shroud or another part. Together with the surviving frescoes and objects from Pompeii and Herculaneum, and tomb frescoes in Macedonia, they are the best preserved paintings from ancient times and are renowned for their remarkable naturalism. So why are they not famous and why are these relentless efforts to suggest that they are Greek and not Egyptian although they are found in Fayum, an Oasis in the Western Desert, some 350 kms south of Alexandria?! Martin Bernal thinks that there is a sort of collective conspiracy when it comes to defining the contribution and <b>...</b>