Fayum
Britishnoun
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Eleven years ago, while working in the Fayum Depression of the Western Desert in Egypt, the team excavated the fossil of what they initially thought was a small amphibian.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2023
He also studied and mimicked the sophisticated painting techniques used in the Fayum portraits.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2018
Like the Fayum portraits, Berger suggests, Dürer’s canvases make explicit what all artworks do: They contemplate us as we contemplate them, showing us what it means to linger over the act of looking.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2015
The paintings, known as Fayum portraits after the region near Cairo where they were found, were discovered on archaeological digs in 1888 and 1911 by William Flinders Petrie.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2012
S. of Cairo, to Abuksa in the Fayum mudiria.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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