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- ancient Egyptians as Shedet, its current name in English is also spelled as Fayum, Faiyum or al-Faiyūm. Faiyum was also previously officially named Madīnat...
- Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt...
- Prehistory. 2 (2): 135–185. doi:10.1007/BF00975416. ISSN 1573-7802. "Fayum, Qarunian (Fayum B) (about 6700-5300 BC?)". Digital Egypt for Universities. University...
- The Fayum alphabet is an Ancient Gr**** abecedary inscribed on four copper plates, purportedly found in Fayum, Egypt but made in Cyprus. It may preserve...
- The Fayyum Fragment (Papyrus Vindobonensis Gr**** 2325 [P. Vienna G. 2325]) is a papyrus fragment containing text that could be from part of the New Testament...
- preference for cremation. Preserved by the dry desert environment, these Fayum mummy portraits make up the richest body of portraiture to have survived...
- 2022. Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1909). New carnivorous mammals from the Fayûm Oligocene, Egypt. [Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of...
- North and West Africa. The first specimen was discovered in strata from the Fayum fossil deposits of Egypt. It was named in 1901 by Charles William Andrews...
- The Fayum is a region and an important fossil Lagerstätte in northern Egypt. The region comprises the Fayum Basin, which is intensively used for agriculture...
- stylistic connections to Fayum Mummy portraiture including materials and artistic elements, and its production has been located in the Fayum district of Egypt...