Detective scientists discover ancient clues in mummy portraits
Sunday, February 14, 2016 - 12:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A Northwestern University research team has taken CSI to a whole new level: employing sophisticated scientific tools to investigate details of the materials and methods used by Roman-Egyptian artists to paint lifelike mummy portraits more than 2,000 years ago. These visages of the dead are considered to be antecedents of Western portraiture. Marc Walton and […]