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	Fayum mummy portraits - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fayum mummy portraits is the name given to a large number of paintings from the first to third century.
		The surviving paintings are predominantly from the Fayum region in Roman Egypt, where the practice was common and the dry heat preserved many of the paintings until today.
		Many musueums around the world have fine examples of Fayum mummy portraits on display, notably the British Museum, the Royal Museum of Scotland, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre in Paris.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fayum_mummy_portraits (367 words)

	FAYUM - LoveToKnow Article on FAYUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Southwest of the Fayum, and forming part of the mudiria, is the Gharak depression.
		Differing from the typical oasis, whose fertility depends on water obtained from springs, the cultivated land in the Fayum is formed of Nile mud brought down by the Bahr Yusuf.
		of the Fayum is cultivated, the chief crops being cereals and cotton.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FA/FAYUM.htm (499 words)

	The Eye of the Scorpion
		Fayum will do what he can to quash those rumours, but first he must lend his medical training to tend to the dying Doctor, while Antranak takes the assassin to the “house of death” to be tortured.
		Fayum takes Peri hostage, threatening to slit her throat unless he and Horemshep are granted free passage from the city.
		Fayum and Horemshep report failure to Yanis, who is surprised to learn that the boy he nearly killed at his camp is the one Horemshep planned to put on the throne.
	www.drwhoguide.com /who_bf24.htm (5606 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		This painting in wax-based pigments on a limewood panel fixed over the face of a mummy belongs to a genre of realistic portraiture of which examples have been found from the Mediterranean coast as far south as Thebes.
		The highest concentration is in the Fayum oasis southwest of Cairo.
		Fayum mummy paintings are startling examples of ancient painters' attempts to reproduce the world of appearances; when we look on these pictures we believe we are seeing the faces of the dead.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4306151,00.html (614 words)

	Shell in the Middle East \| Views - January 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Fayum Gas was established in 2001 to deliver natural gas, supplied from the EGPC [Egyptian General Petroleum Company] master gas network, to the Fayum Governorate and Fayum City through a Fayum Gas-owned network of dedicated gas pipelines," says Ahmed Dakroury, Managing Director of Fayum Gas.
		Customers have nothing but praise for Fayum Gas as they now have a reliable source of fuel - whether it be for cooking in the house or running an industrial plant - delivered directly to their premises.
		In Fayum City Industrial Area the introduction of natural gas by pipeline has led to the growth of industry in the area.
	www.shell-me.com /english/jan05/views1.htm (1914 words)

	Egyptvoyager.com: Fayoum Oasis - Egypt
		The Fayum is separated from the Nile Valley by a relatively thin ridge and contains a large lake, called Birket Qarun, around which the life in the area has always rotated.
		Geological studies proved that the area of the Fayum saw significant and turbulent changes in its climate and geography, and in fact the region is famous for the fossils that can be found in the desert.
		Lahun and Hawara, on the ridge dividing the Fayum from the Valley, were chosen for the construction of two pyramids, both of which are now in ruins.
	www.egyptvoyager.com /oases_fayum.htm (500 words)

	Fayum Neolithic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fayum Neolithic (Fayum A) Fayum Neolithic is the earliest securely attested full Neolithic culture in Egypt.
		Most sites of the Fayum Neolithic (also called Fayum A) were found at the northern rim of the Fayum, excavated by Caton-Thompson, Gardner (1924-1926), Wendorf and Ginter and Kozlowski (in the 70s and 80s).
		The Fayum Neolithic is contemporary with the Neolithic culture of Merimde and is in many ways connected with it (compare a map of African Neolithic cultures).
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /fayum/neolithic.html (179 words)

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		This report summarizes research conducted in the Fayum region of Egypt between April and July of 1994 as an ARCE Fellow.
		The purpose of this research was to study certain aspects of artifact variability during the so-called "Epipaleolithic-Neolithic transition" in the Fayum region of Egypt (Figure 1).
		The succeeding Neolithic (the 'Fayum A' of Caton-Thompson 1926) is separated from the Qarunian by an apparent abandonment of the Fayum, corresponding to low lake levels and general aridification (Hassan 1986a).
	www.acagle.net /fayum94/narce.html (3873 words)

	Mysterious Fayum Portraits:Doxiadis,Euphrosyne :0810933314:eCampus.com
		In the first three centuries A.D., in a fertile district of Roman Egypt called the Fayum, a diverse community of Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, and Jews flourished.
		These paintings, today known as Fayum, or mummy, portraits, were created to preserve the memory of each individual.
		The Fayum portraits are by far the most important body of portraiture to have survived antiquity.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0810933314 (160 words)

	About the 2002 Fayum Fieldschool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Fayum Fieldschool is a project to provide training for inspectors of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the latest archaeological techniques.
		The Fayum Fieldschool is a project of the Egyptian Antiquities Project (EAP), financed by USAID and administered by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE).
		In Fall 2002 the Fayum field school concentrates on the Greco-Roman village of Medinet Watfa (ancient Philoteris).
	www.archbase.com /fayum/about.html (275 words)

	The Mysterious Fayum Portraits
		The Fayum Portraits: Greek and Roman painting style, encaustic (εγκαυστική) (from enkaio “to burn-in”) on wood, part of the Egyptian culture (funeral portraits).
		The portraits, many from Fayum, are from a period when Romans followed the Greeks as rulers and their influence is shown (for example Roman fashion).
		Due to the influence of the Greeks in Egypt for around 300 years and later the Romans many persons shown have Greek names and wear Roman clothes but their religion is Egyptian.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Arts/Fajum.htm (766 words)

	Ancient Lives: The Tebtunis Papyri in Context
		In the Fayum the older name, the Marsh, was supplanted by the name of the queen - it became the Arsinoite nome - and papyri from here enable us to trace the development of the newly reclaimed areas.
		The village of Oxyrhyncha in the South Fayum, for instance, became a centre for the cultivation of garlic.
		Housing in the Fayum was closely grouped together at the edge of the cultivation where it didn't encroach on irrigated land.
	tebtunis.berkeley.edu /ancientlives/thompson.html (3089 words)

	AthensNews onLine SEARCH
		Her book The Mysterious Fayum Portraits, published by Thames and Hudson, was launched in October 1995 at the Hellenic Centre in London by the then Greek ambassador Elias Gounaris.
		Doxiadis speculates that one of the reasons why the Fayum portraits - "the most outstanding body of painting to have come down to us from the ancient world" - have until recently remained largely unknown to the general public may be precisely due to the fact that they cannot be attributed to named artists.
		There are now thousands and thousands of art lovers who have learned to admire these sad faces with their hypnotic stare, their often poignant expressions of grief, their penetrating features and recognisable human emotions so very different from the smooth, bland, idealised faces of classical statuary.
	www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=13022&m=A38&aa=1&eidos=S (1343 words)

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		DH: When I was invited to speak at the Glass Art Society conference, I decided that I wanted to create a new piece that would reflect my work with glass, my interest in history and the fact that we were all there, fascinated by and involved with glass, in the 21st century.
		The Fayum, one of the richest and most important provinces of Egypt, was a very lush agricultural region only about 150 miles south of Alexandria.
		Another very significant archeological discovery of this period, and located primarily in the Fayum region, are the famous mummy portraits.
	www.dinahhulet.com /Index/Pages/Other/Interview5.html (573 words)

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		The archaeology of the Fayum suggests that temples within the region were oriented towards the water sources that dominated the local landscape.
		By analyzing papyri from Karanis and Tebtynis, it can be demonstrated that movement through the Fayum landscape occurred on both the local and regional level: movement took place between villages that were geographically near to one another, and, to a lesser extent, between villages geographically distant from one another.
		The recognition of the Fayum as a conceptually distinct region is pivotal in the study of community interaction and a necessary prerequisite for both discussions of the larger community of the Fayum and perceptions of local identity.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/03mtg/abstracts/Wilburn.html (431 words)

	Domain of Culture - Cultural Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Portraits of Fayum, the famous portraits that were discovered at the region of Fayum by professor W.M. Flinders Petrie between 1889 and 1913, are the main topic of the lecture and the slide show given by researcher Euphrosyne Doxiadis on Monday, December 15.
		The outcome was an important and beautiful volume, entitled "The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt." It combines accredited scientific research with immaculate appearance and fills a major gap in the documentation of the art of antiquity.
		In the lush Fayum region of Greco- Roman Egypt, portraits of the embalmed, mummified dead were excavated.
	www.cultureguide.gr /events/details.jsp?Event_id=43739&catA=12 (325 words)

	ASNT 2002: Fayum Villages and the Prosopographia Ptolemaica: Connecting a Database with an On-Line Gazetteer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Fayum Project, started in September 1998 at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium), is a data base-driven historical-topographical study of the Fayum oasis during the Graeco-Roman period.
		Central part of this study is a survey of all individual Fayum villages, combining both textual and archaeological sources, fed by a data base of all texts relevant to the Fayum, both in Egyptian (demotic - Coptic) and in Greek.
		Thus the Fayum website can be considered as a kind of an overlay of the database, in which the data are available within a full-text summary.
	tabula.rutgers.edu /conferences/ancient_studies2002/abstracts/vanbeek.html (482 words)

	The Mysterious Fayum Portraits - Faces from Ancient Egypt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the recurrent daydreams of those fascinated by the past is to be able to unlock the doors of history and gaze at the faces of men and women who lived two thousand years ago, to look into their eyes and catch their expressions, their personalities, their presence....
		In the old Egyptian tradition, they and their contemporaries in other parts of the Nile Valley embalmed the bodies of their dead; but they then placed over the mummy a painted portrait, to preserve the memory of each individual.
		The Fayum portraits are by far the largest body of ancient easel-painting to have survived.
	www.aucpress.com /cgi-aucpress/auc02/pager.cgi?catno=573_3 (327 words)

	Greek and Roman Art
		The Mummy Portrait of a Man is from the Fayum region in Egypt.
		The hair of the beard on the man looks almost identical to the hair on the woman, as well as the use of light that was used to highlight the neck and ears.
		Even containing all of these similarities, each of the Fayum portraits have their own meaning and are seen to be as different as the people they represented.
	www.onlineessays.com /essays/arts/art034.php (1315 words)

	UCL Department of Greek and Latin: Research Project - Fayum Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Fayum Survey Project aims to record the archaeological sites of West Fayum, which for the most part date from the occupation of the region in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods.
		The objective of the survey is to plan and survey all the extant archaeological sites present in the west and north-west region of the Fayum Depression.
		The 2003 campaign continued the survey of the four previous years in the 'Themistou District' in the north-western part of the Fayum.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /GrandLat/research/fayum.html (1070 words)

	Public Anthropology
		Fayum and Khartoum share many similarities such as: the presence of amazon-stone beads, the use of fire pits and hearths, the absence of cemetaries, the possible eventual domestication of animals, the burnishing of pottery, and the flaking and partial grinding of stone celts.
		Carbon-14 dates for Fayum, Merimde, and especially Khartoum, are criticized and the authors propose that the sites actually date earlier than the results.
		While they believe the wheat, barley, and flax grown at Fayum, the eldest of the Neolithic sites, must be of Asian origin, Arkell and Ucko do not see a continuing foreign influence in Egypt.
	www.publicanthropology.org /Archive/Ca1965.htm (12883 words)

	The province of El Fayum
		This region is extremely rich of many archaeological sites such as the old e City of El Fayum (Crocododopolis) in ancient Egypt it was called shedt and it was a great city during the time of the Middle kingdom.
		One of the famous areas in Fayum is Kom Mady (Narmouthis) it is famous with the remains of the old temple which dates back top the XII dynasty and it was dedicated to the god Sobek, goddess Isis,and goddess Renen-Wetet.
		It is situated near the entrance of the City of El Fayum, to the North and it is about 30 km away from the center of El Fayum.
	completegypt.com /karanis.html (553 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sylvie Colinart, Mady Elias, Michel Menu Palais du Louvre Fayum* portraits are furerary paintings from the Roman period and one of the eldest oldest human representations of the cultural heritage.
		Commonly called “Fayum portraits,”, from one of their discovery locations, some of these portraits have been excavated from other Egyptian sites, especially Antinoe.
		The results show that the painting matter prepared by the Fayum artists is adapted to modulate the play of light and shadows on the face: white lead, red ochres and iron oxides are mixed in these funerary portraits for representing the living flesh.
	www.iscc.org /aic2001/abstracts/oral/Menu_Colinart_Elias.doc (869 words)

	Monuments and Sites of Ancient Egypt - Illahun
		Illahun is the name of a modern village located near the opening of the Hawara Channel from the Nile Valley into the Fayum basin.
		This is the location that Sesostris II choose for his funerary monument, a choice that stresses the growing importance of the Fayum oasis during the early 12th Dynasty.
		Illahun is located between Memphis and the Fayum oasis.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /topography/illahun (741 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Tebtunis was situated in the south-west corner of the Fayum.
		The Fayum is an oasis, surrounded by hills in the desert south-west of Memphis.
		By building sluices and damms the Egyptians had already regulated the watersupply in Pharaonic times, but it was Ptolemy II Philadelphos (reigned 285-246 BCE) who actually undertook the development of the whole region on a larger scale.
	bancroft.berkeley.edu /Exhibits/Papyri/tebtunis.html (685 words)

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		At the time that the Fayum deposits were laid down by ancient channels of the Nile, Egypt lay several degrees south of where it is now.
		The lowest strata of the Fayum are Eocene in age, about 36 million years old, but most of the deposits are Oligocene in age, some 31 million years old.
		The second anthropoid group at the Fayum is the propliopithecids, a group that includes our probable ancestor at such a distant time.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/origins/primates/primate_evol/larger_primates.html (1112 words)

	Egypt, ancient: history - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Egypt, ancient: history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		They also had green beads of soft soapstone glaze (the earliest known glazing), which copied beads of hard green amazon stone known from the Fayum, and also copper beads, the earliest known metal objects in Egypt.
		The capital, however, was moved north to between the oasis of Fayum and Memphis, where the kings resided and built pyramids.
		They regulated the irrigation of the Fayum, increasing its fertility and turning it into the ‘Garden of Egypt’.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Egypt,+ancient:+history (7569 words)

	Latest News: Fayum Mummy Scan Reveals 2000-Year-Old Secrets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The unidentified Fayum mummy was removed from the National Cultural History Museum in Pretoria.
		Thanks to a scanning procedure a few hours later at the Muelmed Hospital, the mummy was identified as a male with a jumble of bones under its wrappings.
		It came from Fayum, an area known for its unusual treatment of mummies.
	www.mummytombs.com /news/2002/7.safrica.fayum.htm (315 words)

	WELCOME TO THE CVRLAB AT UCLA
		The project is part of a larger research project, the UCLA / RUG (Groningen University, The Netherlands) Fayum project, under direction of Dr. Willeke Wendrich and Dr. René Cappers.
		The model is a highly accurate 3D terrain map showing geological features as well as settlements, field systems, and shore lines from prehistory to late the present.
		As the UCLA/RUG Fayum project progresses, the model will be updated to reflect the latest finds.
	www.cvrlab.org /projects/real_time/fayum/fayum.html (80 words)

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