Fayum
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Eleven years ago, while working in the Fayum Depression of the Western Desert in Egypt, the team excavated the fossil of what they initially thought was a small amphibian.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
The partial skeleton was found in Egypt's Fayum Depression and analysed by scientists at Mansoura University.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2021
The Tondo will help guide Abbe and Van Voorhis in their work on the busts, just as the Fayum portraits aided Verri.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
One of the Fayum mummy portraits, a collection of funeral images “painted in the ancient Greek tradition,” it depicts an elegantly appointed woman.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2015
A large tank was made for the sacred crocodile in the Fayum, and the priests used to follow the reptile around the tank with the offerings brought by devotees.
From The Religion of Ancient Egypt by Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir
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