MUMMIES
Fayum Fayum Oasis has been of great importance for understanding the world and the private life of Roman Egypt.
A good example of this, were the findings of a large number of Egyptian mummies from the Roman period, near the oasis. These discoveries have allowed a better understanding of the processes of mestizaje culture that occurred in this land, with the heavy inflow of Roman culture, through traders, armies, businessmen and politicians who were destined for this important province of the empire.
One of the most important traditions that existed in ancient Egypt was the mummification of their dead, because it was thought that the dead back to life after death and their bodies need to live in another world. Therefore, the bodies should be in perfect condition for the soul of the deceased could recognize his body and use again.
To protect the mummies, sarcophagi were used special, over time, were adorning themselves and becoming true concerning Egyptian art.
was both the significance that the beautification of the sarcophagus that can, thanks to fashion, form and style of the coffins, identify different historical periods of Pharaonic Egypt.
was right here in the art of beautifying the sarcophagus, which could see the cultural changes brought by contact with the Greco-Roman and Egyptian Fayum mummies are the best example of these cultural changes.
One of the first questions that appear when viewing some of the mummies of Fayum, is whether people who were mummified in this period, through the new style of Fayum, were Roman citizens who had completely assimilated Egyptian customs and traditions, or vice versa, were citizens who had copied Egyptian customs and Greco-Roman fashion and had been assimilated into their ancestral customs.
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first part, Fayum mummies.
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