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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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