A real sensation was the find of archaeologists in the vicinity of the Egyptian city of Philadelphia – two full portraits of mummies and several fragments of other paintings. English archaeologist Flinders Petrie back in 1911.
discovered, during excavations of the archaeological site of Gerza in Fayum (the administrative center in Egypt), archaeologists discover many placers of funerary artifacts – papyri with texts, ceramics, several tombs of the Ptolemaic and Ancient Rome eras, as well as a terracotta statue of Isis-Aphrodite in a wooden coffin.
Posthumous images, discovered as Fayu portraits, are a rich representative of ancient times. According to the head of the excavations, Basem Gehad, “the context of these portraits” is unknown to anyone. However, it is clear that the discovered artifacts reflect the influence of the culture of Ancient Greece on Egyptian culture, since their representatives partly lived in Philadelphia for six centuries.
Source: Tech Cult
