Egypt’s Fayoum mummy portraits to travel abroad for first time after restoration
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By HAMZA FAHMY
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt unveiled Sunday a restored version of the “Tondo of the Two Brothers,” a prized 2nd-century painting from the famed Fayoum portraits.
Specialists from Rome worked alongside conservators from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir — where the collection is usually kept — for three weeks to restore the artwork, officials said at a press conference.
Fayoum mummy portraits were painted primarily on thin wooden panels and placed over the faces of the deceased within mummy wra
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt unveiled Sunday a restored version of the “Tondo of the Two Brothers,” a prized 2nd-century painting from the famed Fayoum portraits.
Specialists from Rome worked alongside conservators from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir — where the collection is usually kept — for three weeks to restore the artwork, officials said at a press conference.
Fayoum mummy portraits were painted primarily on thin wooden panels and placed over the faces of the deceased within mummy wra
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