From The New Indian Express
Center Owned by Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd.Egyptian mummy portraits show antiquity's piercing gaze in new Rome show
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ROME: An elegant woman gazes out from her portrait with expressive eyes, a gilded wreath worn in her hair and a gentle, questioning look on her face. She is one of the 2,000-year-old "Faces of Fayum", startlingly realistic funerary -- or mummy -- portraits painted after Egypt became part of the…
