2,000-year-old mummy portrait looks way ahead of its time
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January 31, 2026
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt will go up for sale next week, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair. The painting is one of 900 or so known as the Fayum mummy portraits, created during the 1st and 3rd century AD and
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