Portrait of a Child Historical and Scientific Studies of a Roman Egyptian Mummy

Portrait of a Child is an illustrated guide to the fascinating story of the mummy known to archaeologists as ?Hawara Portrait Mummy No. 4.? Discovered in 1910 by British archaeologist Flinders Petrie at the Roman-Egyptian archaeological site of Hawara, the mummified child had been buried with a luminous painted portrait which has captivated viewers ever since. This book tells the story of what cutting-edge research has revealed about her life and death.0The centerpiece of a 2018 exhibit at Northwestern University?s Block Museum of Art titled ?Paint the Eyes Softer: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt,? the mummy was the focus on intense, multidisciplinary research. University researchers used CT scan technology to investigate the cause of the child?s death and identify the method and materials used in mummification. Traveling to the Department of Energy?s Argonne National Laboratory, the mummy then became the first ever analyzed using Adva