Name: Excavating a Burial Painting | Lost Treasures of Egypt
Uploaded: 2022-02-22T16:51:24.000Z
Duration: 3 min 39 s
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NARRATOR: In the sands of the necropolis,

that is painted with the wax, the encaustic technique.

traveled South through Egypt along the Nile.

from the artists, who painted with hot beeswax onto wood.

The lifelike portraits were unlike anything

People hung their colorful portraits in their homes.

When they died, the portrait was put on their face

Basem can clearly make out the face of the woman it depicts.

BASEM GEHAD: We can realize all the detail--

the hairs, eyes, nose, lips, and even the necklace,

And the tunic, the Greek tunic, which is painted in purple.

NARRATOR: It's a beautiful portrait of a Greek woman who

around the time of Cleopatra some 2,000 years ago.

Basem thinks tomb robbers must have broken

BASEM GEHAD: When it's broken into small fragments

So most probably, they left it at the site.

I can't see any kind of object that could be

This single piece makes our work here worth it.

too would have been buried with a lifelike portrait of herself.

were very keen in keeping the picture of the deceased.

did it their own way using a new tradition of paintings.

And then they put these wonderful, amazing, awesome

portraits on the face and then they wrapped the whole mummy

that even outside Alexandria, the Greeks of her reign

followed Cleopatra's example and embraced Egyptian customs.

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Excavating a Burial Painting | Lost Treasures of Egypt

incredible

awesome

technique

period