Fayum Portraits-Greco-Roman Egypt
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- A gaze into the ancient Greco-Roman world of Ancient Egypt, by examining and re-creating the faces of the Fayum Mummy Portraits that were painted using encaustic (wax) and tempera painting techniques by anonymous artists on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt. These paintings represent the only significant body of original Greek or Roman art to have survived from Classical Antiquity, and rank alongside other rare painted works.
Your talent, artistry and love of history is truly an amazing gift.
they have white washed these faces. Ethnically they are more African. They have whitened the skin and eyes. Very inaccurate
This is magical, I felt they are real .they look much alike modern Egyptians these faces are so much familiar here in Egypt
And the music is well chosen
welldone👏🏻👏🏻
This song is an old Egyptian Folklore song called : الحلوة دي (this pretty woman) I am Palestinian and I highly admire and respect your work! Thank you 🙏
Just stunning. These portraits show these people at their best. They're all such beautiful women and handsome men. Thank you for all of your hard work.
In the future I hope that you can do more Fayum portraits. Some of the women were stunningly beautiful.
You have brought these long dead faces back to life.
Bringing history to life!! Thank you
I love this art! I just looked at your latest Fayum Mummy portraits (11-13-23) and I'm delighted. I hope you continue with these reconstructions. 'Of the 900 known I known many will be hard to do, I know, but even if you can do some 200 or so I will be thumbs upping you! I'm fascinated by the ancient world. especially Mediterranean cultures and civilizations. Thank You!
Thank you. I was completely unaware of the history you provided. Great work!
Beautiful Egyptian music from said darwish 100 years ago
We must request qualification from UNESCO to protect the rights of North Africans against attempts at cultural appropriation of our ancestors by sub-Saharan Afrocentrists.
They're ashamed of their real history so they try to appropriate the history and culture of others. They do this to Egyptians, Jews, Greeks, Italians, Scandinavians, Romans, American Indians and the Japanese. They are truly pathetic.
What? These are the kings and queens, and royalty of Africa!! African Americans are proud to have these kings and queens! They are African royalty!
Stunning these images. You really captured their souls. Maranatha Viewing from OHIO.
These were worth waiting for, they are fantastic, I do believe your post of these should be added to the History of Art for the students, they would be invaluable, thank you.
For anyone looking for the first song: it's based on the Egyptian folk song Ya Henna, but this is its reendition for the Civilisation grand strategy game series. Just look up Civilization 6 Egypt Theme!
Great work!!!
That’s one ‘era’ I didn’t know too much about ! Thank you for ‘bringing these to life’ Your talents are beyond belief - once again, many, many thanks !! ✨✨✨✨
You're welcome! Which other historical period would you like to see here in the future?
@@panagiotisconstantinou oh my goodness ! If you haven’t done it, the Maharajas of India - or the Muslim Caliphate would be excellent - I was born in India so these are quite close to my heart ♥️
Brilliant 🤩 So Amazing and Brilliant I’m literally speechless.. Fantastic..
Thank you so much 😀
@@panagiotisconstantinou Please keep doing this.. You are literally bringing history alive .. So Beautiful.. I’m going to share this with anyone I can think of .. Your work is sublime .. Sorry I’m literally gushing now ..
The theme is a real traditional song in Egypt called "Elhelwa de amet tegen"
Very nice work and extremely sensitive!
είμαστε στην Αμερική έντεκα ή δώδεκα χρόνια τώρα, and I don't see a lot of people that look like me where I live, but this video cheered me up.
I've been compared to one of these paintings several times, so seeing them move and blink... φανταστικό!! έκανε την καρδιά μου καλό 😂 beautiful, beautiful work. έχεις μεγάλο ταλέντο! 💓
Most of modern Egyptians look like those people so much.
@@armajhkc609Shut up, are you crazy? They are all insistent, not influenced by Romanian culture
When you mentioned the short life expectancies of that time, it's important to remember that much of that was due to staggering (by modern standards) levels of infant and childhood mortality. If you made it to your mid-teens your odds of reaching age sixty were fairly good, though death rates at every age were higher than today's.
The people in the original portraits look more typically "middle eastern" than what the AI did with them
Great Masterpieces of Art 👑👑 Thanks Panagiotis
Really interesting and fascinating 👍🏾
Beautifully done, bravo!
Beautiful people and amazing job Panagiotis... no surprise✨✨✨
Thank you for your kind words 🙂
Amazing as usually ! Each time I learn something new inspite of my education and knowledge. There is still so much to learn. Love every work of yours. Greetings from Jerusalem.
Fascinating! ❤❤
Thank you very much. Just excellent!
Amazing!
Magnificent work ❤
Люди I - III веков очень похожи на нас. Спасибо, Панайотис! Прекрасная работа!
Excellent work and historical data- I have seen some at the MMA in NYC and they are truly striking, as you have shown.
Huge fan of your channel! Please do more of these fayum paintings.
For sure 😊!
Thank you for this. It is tantalizing. These are just kids, and by their standard elders. Just fascinating.
I love this video....thanks for the work to making it🥰
Absolutly fantastic😍😍👏👏👏
I have always loved these ancient paintings. I also wonder why the size of the eyes are exaggerated. Perhaps the windows to the soul?
That can be really fascinating...😉👍
Excellent
That last girl was stunning 😍
Love your work and it really is a trip looking into the eyes of these people knowing this is not some one of today who looks like them but looking into the living eyes and face of somebody who actually lived around the times of Christ. Love to see more of these Fayum people but most of all I really wish You would include the names and dates of these people and any information you might have on who they were in their lives.
Thank You For The Video.
👏👏👏 Amazing work
Amazing 👍👍👍
Amazing stuff
that is so cool thanks for sharing this with us :)
This has been amazing for our times
Centuries and centuries have passed and despite the Germanic and Islamic invasion, the Mediterranean phenotype has not changed substantially.
The Arabian people also are Mediterranean type.
An Arab trying to be close to white
That not a true assessment. The Scandinavians are dominated by I-haplogroup which is by many standard DNA studies of Middle Eastern origin.
Why are you claiming that these pictures are Greek or Roman art when they are obviously Egyptian art. Egypt had skilled painters and the way they were mummified, they way they look and replacing the old mask burial tradition with a portrait is only an Egyptian art evolution.
They are mainly Egyptians (perhaps a minority mixed with Egyptianized Greeks), but the overall look, art, burial, religious theme is purely Egyptian.
They weren't all Egyptians, some of them mingled with Egyptians but some kept their Greek identity, speaking from experience as I have some friends who are Greeks from Egypt whose families were exiled from Egypt by Nasser.
@@panagiotisconstantinou It is ok if some mixed with Egyptians. But still the whole theme is Egyptian and the art and the idea are obviously Egyptian that just evolved by time by replacing the burial mask with a burial portrait. Looking at previous sarcophagus and mummies one can immediately spot they are for the same people.
Because it is indeed Greco-roman art, but coupled with Egyptian funerary tradition. Any book or academic work dealing with this topic will qualify it as such. Of course, the painters and the people who are represented were Egyptians, as much as this burial tradition. But it doesn't change the fact that that way of painting portraits is purely Greco-roman and didn't exist in ancien Egypt before it became a Ptolemaic Kingdom or a Roman province. The painting techniques used are Greek, and the tradition of painting very realistic protraits is Roman. Similar portraits existed all over the empire on various mediums and for different uses, even though they were put on mummies only in Egypt.
Here, the religious theme and usage is Egyptian, but the iconography, style and technique are Greco-roman. Exactly the same way some temples built for Egyptian deities under the Roman era used typical Greco-roman architecture, while the statues of such deities where of Greco-roman style. Same for mosaics, theaters and other things built under the roman era. They are called "roman" because they are representatives of roman style and artistic tradition and representatives of what was being built or created at the time inside the roman empire. For example, a Roman era portrait found in France, Tunisia or anywhere else (using roman techniques and artistic tradition) would still be called a "roman portrait", no matter its usage.
Of course, qualifying the Fayum portraits as "Egyptian" is not false either as they were painted in Egypt and are representatives of Egyptian funerary tradition. But they are not typically Egyptian artistically and technically.
@@Vinnie92350 I agree about the temples building, we do call them greek or roman temples in Egypt based on their style and i do agree that these portraits were during the Greco-Roman era and that the people in the drawings are clearly influenced by the Greco-Roman style.
But during the Ptolemaic era, the situation was different than the Roman era. During the Ptolemaic Egypt wasn’t a Greek province, it was an Egyptian country ruled by greeks who - kind of - Egyptianized themselves and at the same time introduced the Greek culture, so it was a mixture of cultures (mainly Egyptian with a Greek touch). During the Roman era, Egypt was a Roman province, so basically most of the buildings were purely of Roman style (the purely Egyptian style faded away) except at the beginning of the Roman era you can find the Kalabsha temple 30 bc with the first Roman Emperor ruler with Egyptian style.
I don’t mind calling the art by its origin, the thing is i do recognize the Greco-Roman buildings, or Sculptures but for these portraits, I don’t think i saw similar portraits in Greece or Rome dating back to the same period of the Fayoum portraits and knowing the Egyptians burial traditions i would assume it is Egyptian, I don’t mind at all being corrected, if you have links to similar Greek or Roman portraits of the same era, i would love to see them as even the oldest Roman portrait drawings or fresco drawings were different (maybe same idea but different quality and style).
Dont be upset...they even claimed Jesus as european at one time..🤣🤣
موسيقى اغنية سيد درويش
الحلوه دي.
موسيقى جميلة
The music is so beautiful it's Egyptian music. It's called
El Helwa Di. By Egyptian Sayed Darwesh.
Indeed, it sounds very mystical!
Love the song!
Is it possible the paintings were made when they were younger then used after death? Unless there are bodies to be dated, it seems likely they would want a youthful + beautiful portrait of themselves, not necessarily the most recent... ?
Maybe but also possible that they died young given the mortality rate back then.
Yes, the mortality rate was very high. Even to this day when someone from Greece says how many kids he has, the other responds "na sou zisei" which means " I hope they live" . A leftover from that past.
@@panagiotisconstantinou omg "na sou zisei" seems like japanese language to me
Looks like the typical modern egyptian
Are we looking at the same people?
The second images look to me like they're greeks while the rest look like modern egyptians.
@@hia5235 нет, они разные люди, эти люди которые изображены на фаюмских портретах, жили во времена Римской империи около I- II веках нашей эры. Может быть у этих людей мужчин и женщин которые изображены на фаюмских портретах были также имена, их может быть звали или называли по имени.
@@anthonymanderson7671 на фаюмских портретах, изображениях, рисунков, могут быть греки, и римляне, на счёт египтян не знаю, рисовали людей египтян на фаюмских портретов художники в 1 и 2 веках нашей эры в эпоху Римской империи.
@@АлександрНазаров-щ1д The name of these mummies are of egyptian origin and so is their religion. However, their style is very Roman.
Remarkable.
They look like people in modern Egypt
I don't see it
@@wankawanka3053 as egyptian yes they look like us
😂😂😂 Most Egyptians are not like that, in fact These images are of Greek and Levantine people who have a Hellenistic culture. The Egyptians did not have a Hellenistic culture
@@wankawanka3053 Because you are blind
Superbe ❤❤
Εισαι απιστευτος....εχω κολλησει ολη μερα με τα βιντεο σου....
Ευχαριστώ! Δες όσα θες, δεν με πειράζει 😉
@@panagiotisconstantinou Μπραβο σου κ παλι! ❤🙂
Whoaaa...another mesmerizing Panagiotis video I haven't seen before! I never get enough, please more.
Interesting ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
What's amazing to me is how young the deceased appear to be. They were likely in their 20's to early 30's when they died. Based on what I read the leading cause of death in Egypt at that time was tuberculosis and malaria.
Were their eyes really that big or it’s just the portraiture art style? Like how bigger eyes in portraiture was in style in 18th century western paintings.
It was the portrait style.
Είναι τόσο καταπληκτικά τα πορτραίτα που σχεδόν δεν χρειάζονται την δική σας εργασία, είναι ήδη σαν φωτογραφίες. Μου αρέσει πολύ η δουλειά σας, μη με παρεξηγείτε.
Merci
Wow, They look like modern Egyptians 😍
And also like modern Greeks and Italians ❤
These portraits were mostly of Greeks who settled in Egypt and made the majority of the upper class , I’m assuming some of them end up mixing with the native population at some point.
@@anaz5918 No , dear. These portraits are for Egyptians who dead at the roman age, so they were drawn in the roman style. Like the age of ancient Egyptians , they were drawn in the pharaohnic style.
@@elthawy-h1m no...he definitely right. They had Greek names and the inscriptions on the portraits are in Greek. The only thing Egyptian about these poritats were they use (buried with the body, typical Egyptian religious burial rites).
In fact, most Egyptians are not like this. These pictures are of people from Greece and the Levant. The Egyptians did not have a Hellenistic culture
they look very southern italian
6:57
He had curly hair. Why did you change it to straight...?
because he wants to make them look greek/roman 😆
Lmao no his hair seem's straight in potrait
Than curly
AAHAHAHA !!!!! WHAT ? Are you being serious ?? These portraits are of real people . They are Fayum mummy portraits ! There are hundreds of them. They were done in the Roman era of Egypt ! This is what Egyptians looked like ! Hair looks pretty similar !
@@peshmerge44 Go look up fayum mummy portraits ! They are of EGYPTIANS living from around the time of Christ to 300 AD ! There is no hiding anything with these Portraits , its a real depiction of the people ! Some have curly hair, some straight ! I dont see the big deal. Other than you and others looking for stupid shneeeit ! Per usual !
exactly very strange that he did that
Mah sembrano persone che ho gia' visto in giro qui in Italia 😊
The first man was so handsome. R.i.p.
Beware of the Hoteps.
Beware of da UA-cam KKKlan of yt supremacy
We already know what they look like
اليونانين عاشوا في الاسكندريه فقط ولم يختلطوا بباقى السكان والفيوم في جنوب مصر واحتفظ معظم سكان مصر بلغتهم الاصلية ودينهم وما اظن ان هذه الوجوه هى تطوير لعملية التحنيط والدفن في مصر
I wonder why the famous Fayum girl excluded from this video.
I will certainly do another clip about the Fayum portraits 🙂
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J'aime les portraits de fayoume mois qui suit franco italienne origine etrusque de la toscane
Thanks for going to the effort to do this - it's amazing work! It gives us a chance to look into the eyes of people ~2000 years ago! Their world was devoid of Facebook, UA-cam and funyuns, but of course they would have had their own pressing needs at the time - e.g. not catching cholera, not being knifed by their slaves or rivals and eating grapes and rabbits! Amazing to just think about it! 😆👍👍
why all of them have black curly hair like egyptian today if they are greeco roman that have soft yellow hair
Cuz these portraits are for Egyptians neither romans nor greeks. Greeks lived in Alexandria not fayum.And these portraits look typically like modern Egyptians
@@elthawy-h1mthe ancient Greeks and romans were never pure yt civilizations lol that's what you clowns don't seem to understand. That's the reason they look like this because both of those places use to have massive arab & African populations in their lands. You just don't want to admit it in schools. These people were Greco Romans not Africans.
@@elthawy-h1m@ashm6653 Plotemy set up an area for Greeks to settle in Fayyum. Around 40% of Fayyum was greek at the time so it was pretty high percentage of them in that area.
@@Laila-hl8dc stop drinking please
@@elthawy-h1mit’s literally history 💀 fayyum at the time consisted of 40% Greeks/Roman’s and 60% Egyptian search it up.
Il ressenble a des afriquain du nord
These people are either Egyptian or half since the Greeks and Romans burned their dead.
Cleopatra might look like this.a white not a black
She was Greek and Persian so definitely not black. I wish we could be like this with all historical inaccuracies. I want accurate Jesus and Cleopatra.
The one with the bowl cut and full beard. Looks like a todays edgar. American sub culture mostly attributed to hispanic population
Eastern Mediterranean faces
Great!!! You managed to reproduce curly hair!
Tan sólo una observación, ¿es posible su traducción al ESPAÑOL?. Gracias
Egyptian looks the same now
They look alot like modern Persians to me.
it doesnt actually look like the real art .they dont actually look like ancient greek art
You're thinking of Greek vase paintings and sculpture from about four centuries earlier, and a few hundred miles north. Greek art varied by medium, time, and place. And as the video noted, we don't have other surviving examples of ancient Greek easel paintings to compare.
This is in Egypt
Many Egyptians, specially many of the native copts, still have a fully caucasian/white Mediterranean appearance, like many southern Europeans, Lebanese, Syrians, some Magrebin populations (specially berbers), and other Middle Easterners. Unfortunately, after the spread of Islam, and the massive importation of black slaves, the Middle East and North Africa gradually lost their European identity to become what they are today...
I'm very pride that my ancestors mixed with slave, segregation is horrible !
This wash us from horrible slavery because there are our ancestor too.
Se parecen demasuado a nosotros los latinos.
Gente di oggi.
Эти люди из прошлого около 1 и 2 веках нашей эры времена Римской империи.
@Atrees Magdy Но было ещё и персидское завоевание Древнего Египта в 6 веке до нашей эры это в 525 году до н.э. Египет был завоеван персидским царём Киром Великим. Персы захватили Египет ещё до арабов и арабского завоевание.
مصريين بالثلث
The Saxon came to southern Mediterraneans Europe when the Roman empire falls in 485 A.C.
Correction: these were not Greek or Romans... They were Egyptians.. Stop stealing their culture
You're such a child. They were Greek mercenaries and their descendants brought by Alexander the great or the Hellenistic kings. Maybe you should watch like 100 times more to get it.
You watched a few reaction videos about Netflix's Cleopatra and now you get cute.
@@panagiotisconstantinou The DNA prouve that they are egyptian !
They don’t look that different than the regular Egyptians
Love the Fayum mummy portraits . This is what ancient Egyptians looked like !
Absolutely not
@@orvillegrant3304 They were portraits of ancient Egyptians . And they were not white european. Go look up fayum mummy portraits. There is a lot !
@@salvatoresalernatano5964 they were Greeks who settled in Egypt and made up the majority of the upper class eventually some married local natives Egyptians mixing with them .
@@anaz5918 Greeks with hair that looked like that ? Please !! They were a mixed society !!! Period!
@@salvatoresalernatano5964 did you even bother to read his video ? No one is denying Egypt is ethically diverse however I would suggest replaying the video and actually read it .
I do think that a lot of painters back in the day made the lips too small. Because in reality people don't have such a small lips in most cases. And people back then didn't look different than us. Painters didn't show reality they showed the fashionable or the more beautiful version of the real person.
modern egyptians are mixed with subsaharan slaves
This also appears on the mummies, all of whom have prominent features and sculpted ones
@@notiela9711 No, the faces on these prortrets are not even realistic that's not how the human face looks like. I have seen the Egyptians and they were actually quite ugly and probably also because of inbred, but did not look like that either.
You have to understand that painters didn't paint them exactly how they looked like. They always painted the way fashion and beauty standard of that time was. Smaller lips is something you almost always see in portraits and trust me not everybody back in the day had small lips. That simply was a beauty standard. As well that they portraits female bodies and male bodies in certain ways not because they actually looked that way but because that was the beauty standard.
So even you could tell that the skin tones were not matching but your reaction is to insist that the painters were not painting realistically? Wow
they look kind of italian
The first one looks like Lady Gaga. Odd reference, perhaps, but seriously...
Maniflque
Very cool. suprised they didn't break the noses off the pictures, and claim they were something else.
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