An excellent and informative video about the wonderful and mysterious Graeco-Roman mummy portraits. The best of these extraordinary portraits bring the subject to life with a vividness, and sense of presence that is so strong, you find yourself thinking: who’s looking at whom?
it's fascinating that the vast majority of people in roman empire weren't from modern day Italy and Greece ... but even that the west manage to make any civilizational contributions from that era only came either from Greeks or from the people of Italian-Peninsula ... as if they are the only ethnicity that ask questions, invent and be creative ... what about other peoples? the people in the middle east and north Africa?
Agriculture was discovered in the Middle East and it was there that the first great civilizations appeared. They invented writing. Then, agriculture spread to North Africa and Eurasia.
@@carlcetrois They're not only Romans but also Greeks: "The ekphora is a Greek rite, and in many respects the portraits reflect an interest in Greek culture. In the Fayum it is likely that the portraits represent members of a group of mercenaries who had fought for Alexander and the early Ptolemies and were granted land after the Fayum had been drained for agricultural use in the early years of ptolemic rule." - Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt By Susan Walker, PP24..
@@Neftegna The portraits represent native Egyptians, some of whom; had adopted #Greek or #Latin names-then seen as ‘status symbols’. DNA studies show genetic continuity between the Pre-Ptolemaic, #Ptolemaic and #Roman populations, indicating that foreign rule impacted the town’s population only to a very limited degree at the genetic level (Schuenemann et al., 2017). Studies often pursue the analysis of discrete dental traits to determine biological relationships of populations using dental remains. One of these studies were done by the anthropologist Joel D. Irish (2006). The dental morphology of the Roman-period Fayum mummies was compared with that of earlier Egyptian populations, and was found to be "much more closely akin" to that of ancient Egyptians than to Greeks or other European populations. The Greek Egyptians were found to be distinct from other, more closely grouped samples on the left of Figure 5; as before, Badari, #Thebes, and Hawara (owners of the Fayum portraits) are at the center of this cluster. Hawara (HAW) is an early Roman-period burial ground for elite members of the #Fayum Oasis populace. It was excavated by Petrie. Such results are consistent with those of a craniometry study on the same sample (Bowman, 1989). References: Bowman, A. K. (1989). Egypt after the pharaohs 332 BC-AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab conquest. Berkeley: University of California Press. Irish, J. D. (2006). Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 129(4), 529-543. doi:10.1002/ajpa.20261 Schuenemann, V. J., Peltzer, A., Welte, B., Pelt, W. P., Molak, M., Wang, C., Krause, J. (2017). Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods. Nature Communications, 8(1). doi:10.1038/ncomms15694
I just love this! This is what makes classical civilization so lasting: there's always some new-old thing: technique, poetry, custom, or other unknown ideas or modes still being unearthed to the light of day. The "Propagandistic" notion that Latin and Greek are DEAD Utterly Tongues, and nothing more can be unveiled for either, or adjacent cultures: the Egyptian, the Persian, the Hindu SANSKRIT is TOTALLY ERRONEOUS! Of course, the overly COMPULSIVE Requirement that These two critically vital Poles of European Culture that every learned individual has to get into his brain lobes is naturally OBSOLETE as well. There will always be Students wanting to acquire both, and have FUN treating either as still living tongues; and what's wrong with that? In another conceptual sense they definitely are. Perhaps in the Future, there will be CYDONIAN to learn from the "TWIN PEAKS". Or Extraterrestrial forms of communication so hoary with age as to make Greek and Latin as young INFANTS who died before their full maturation of usage.
These portraits are so expressive!
It's moving!
These are AWESOME! thank you for sharing this..
An excellent and informative video about the wonderful and mysterious Graeco-Roman mummy portraits. The best of these extraordinary portraits bring the subject to life with a vividness, and sense of presence that is so strong, you find yourself thinking: who’s looking at whom?
Las mismas caras que vemos hoy
Do know they are not ancient Egyptians. They are of the Roman ruling class. Some who intermixed with the ancient Egyptians.
it's fascinating that the vast majority of people in roman empire weren't from modern day Italy and Greece ... but even that the west manage to make any civilizational contributions from that era only came either from Greeks or from the people of Italian-Peninsula ... as if they are the only ethnicity that ask questions, invent and be creative ... what about other peoples? the people in the middle east and north Africa?
Agriculture was discovered in the Middle East and it was there that the first great civilizations appeared. They invented writing. Then, agriculture spread to North Africa and Eurasia.
The Anglo- saxon people came to Southern Europe after the fallen of the Roman empire in 1V after C !
That's how ancient Romans looked like
@@carlcetrois They're not only Romans but also Greeks:
"The ekphora is a Greek rite, and in many respects the portraits reflect an interest in Greek culture. In the Fayum it is likely that the portraits represent members of a group of mercenaries who had fought for Alexander and the early Ptolemies and were granted land after the Fayum had been drained for agricultural use in the early years of ptolemic rule."
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Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt By Susan Walker, PP24..
@@Neftegna The portraits represent native Egyptians, some of whom; had adopted #Greek or #Latin names-then seen as ‘status symbols’.
DNA studies show genetic continuity between the Pre-Ptolemaic, #Ptolemaic and #Roman populations, indicating that foreign rule impacted the town’s population only to a very limited degree at the genetic level (Schuenemann et al., 2017). Studies often pursue the analysis of discrete dental traits to determine biological relationships of populations using dental remains. One of these studies were done by the anthropologist Joel D. Irish (2006).
The dental morphology of the Roman-period Fayum mummies was compared with that of earlier Egyptian populations, and was found to be "much more closely akin" to that of ancient Egyptians than to Greeks or other European populations.
The Greek Egyptians were found to be distinct from other, more closely grouped samples on the left of Figure 5; as before, Badari, #Thebes, and Hawara (owners of the Fayum portraits) are at the center of this cluster.
Hawara (HAW) is an early Roman-period burial ground for elite members of the #Fayum Oasis populace. It was excavated by Petrie.
Such results are consistent with those of a craniometry study on the same sample (Bowman, 1989).
References:
Bowman, A. K. (1989). Egypt after the pharaohs 332 BC-AD 642: From Alexander to the Arab conquest. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Irish, J. D. (2006). Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 129(4), 529-543. doi:10.1002/ajpa.20261
Schuenemann, V. J., Peltzer, A., Welte, B., Pelt, W. P., Molak, M., Wang, C., Krause, J. (2017). Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods. Nature Communications, 8(1). doi:10.1038/ncomms15694
those are egyptians not romans u wannabe
No they look like modern Egyptians now
its how ancient egyptian looked like
curly hair and black hair
and not white that is Ancient Egyptian and Egyptian now also
I just love this! This is what makes classical civilization so lasting: there's always some new-old thing: technique, poetry, custom, or other unknown ideas or modes still being unearthed to the light of day. The "Propagandistic" notion that Latin and Greek are DEAD Utterly Tongues, and nothing more can be unveiled for either, or adjacent cultures: the Egyptian, the Persian, the Hindu SANSKRIT is TOTALLY ERRONEOUS! Of course, the overly COMPULSIVE Requirement that These two critically vital Poles of European Culture that every learned individual has to get into his brain lobes is naturally OBSOLETE as well. There will always be Students wanting to acquire both, and have FUN treating either as still living tongues; and what's wrong with that? In another conceptual sense they definitely are. Perhaps in the Future, there will be CYDONIAN to learn from the "TWIN PEAKS". Or Extraterrestrial forms of communication so hoary with age as to make Greek and Latin as young INFANTS who died before their full maturation of usage.
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