Inheritance of a technique that had been employed for over 2000 years, the Obamas of Roman Egypt sought to capture in death, the appearance of life itself. The mummies depicted on the following pages, discovered in the necropolis at a village of Dutch in Egypt’s western desert demonstrates the embalm is extraordinary art, modern analysis of the mummies reveals much about the people who lived and died two millennia ago.

ISBN: 9780810928862