The Fayum Portraits are not what you think

The Clever Swindler - How ONE Austrian art dealer fooled the world! A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair, sold for more than double its high estimate on Thursday during Sotheby’s Masters Week sales in New York. The Fayum mummy portraits may represent authentic Roman-period painting. They may also represent a corpus whose authority was consolidated under conditions of market demand, ideological framing, and limited early verification. The cumulative evidentiary record establishes sufficient instability to warrant comprehensive forensic and contextual reassessment. Referenced Media Credits: Good video showing original footage from a now lost production by E pluribus unum:    • Black Egypt? Neptunes Lagoon and friends d...   Striking 2,000-year-old mummy portrait sells for $889,000 https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/31/st... Met Fayuum film    • The Fayum Portraits: Funerary Painting of ...   Harvard Lecture    • The “Mummy Portraits” of Roman Egypt: Stat...   Roman Mummy Portraits - Dr. Michael Birrell    • Roman Mummy Portraits - Dr. Michael Birrell   Dr Lucy Wrapson - Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Senior painting conservator    • Painting Roman period mummy portraits   CT Scan of mummy boy    • CT scanning ancient Egyptian mummies | #Cu...   https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/31/st... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.pcma.uw.edu.pl/wp-content...