Egypt News » Faiyum News Egypt » Faiyum » History: Catacomb-style building re-emerges from the sand to reveal ancient Egyptian coffins
Archaeologists in Faiyum excavated a catacomb-style funeral building with several coffins from ancient Egyptian and Greek eras, photos show. Photo from Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...
News Egypt » Faiyum » History: Face to face with ancient Egypt
Captivated by a portrait in a Boston museum, Sophy Roberts sets out to explore the temples, monasteries and desert landscapes of the Faiyum Oasis ...
News Egypt » Faiyum » History: Prehistoric Survey of Egypt and Western Asia Vol 1: Paleolithic Man and the Nile-Faiyum Divide; a Study of the Region during Pliocene and Pleistocene Times
THE Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago a few years ago began a prehistoric survey of Egypt and Western Asia under the direction of Dr. J. II. Breasted. It devoted attention first to the ...
News Egypt » Faiyum » History: Paintings: Myopic Tribute
One of the most cosmopolitan outposts of the Roman Empire during the 1st to 4th centuries A.D. was Egypt’s Faiyum region, about 60 miles south of Cairo on the Nile. A fertile farming and business ...
News Egypt » Faiyum » History: A New Show Offers Face Time With Ancient Egyptian Funeral Portraits
A new exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam brings together a large collection of funeral paintings from post-Ptolemaic Egypt, some loaned from the Louvre and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
News Egypt » Faiyum » History: The Faiyum Oasis As Seen From Orbit
The Faiyum Oasis (upper left) in Egypt, immediately west of the Nile river and south of the nation’s capital of Cairo, is pictured from an external high definition camera on the International Space ...