Gold death mask AND Griggs AND mummy

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The modern-day city of Al Fayyum is located about 60 miles southwest of Cairo, between the Western Desert and the Nile. The artistic style seen in the mummy portraits reflected this cultural intermingling and may have influenced later Christian art.

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Petrie was, nevertheless, the first archaeologist to submit these portraits to academic study, beginning the task of piecing together a unique world in which Egyptian, Greek, and Roman styles and customs began to intertwine from the first century B.C.

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