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While ancient Egyptian mummy portraits have long been objects of curiosity, only a minimal amount of scholarship exists about them. Many questions have lingered since they were uncovered by archeologists around the Egyptian city of Fayum in the late 1800s.
https://www.egypttales.com/2021/06/egypt-unraveling-mysteries-of-ancient.html
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