Antinous the Gay GodNov 5
🪷 #Antinoopolis and the #Fayoum Oasis are famous for the most spectacular mummy faceplate portraits in Egyptian art. Now forensic experts have compared the mummies' faces with the paintings. They say the portraits are very true to life! Full story: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/11/antinoopolis-mummy-portraits-were-true.html 🪷
Golavita Travel EgyptMay 17, 2025

🌍 Fayoum Oasis – Where Desert Magic Meets Ancient Wonders!

A rare green paradise in Egypt’s sands:
💧 Waterfalls & lakes with 29+ fish species
🐾 Fennec foxes, gazelles & 140+ birds
🦕 Wadi El Hitan – walk among 40-million-year-old whale fossils!
🌌 Crystal-clear Milky Way nights
🌈 Magic Lake changes colors with the sun

🏺 Explore Tunis Village (pottery, local food) & pharaonic secrets at the Hawara Pyramid & Labyrinth Palace.

#Fayoum #Egypt #Nature

Antinous the Gay GodMay 13, 2025
🪷 BREAKING NEWS: Egypt has recovered priceless smuggled #Hatshepsut and #Fayoum #Antinoopolis artefacts from US, including mummy faceplate portraits from the time of #Antinous as well as gold coins, jewelry, fragments of temple reliefs and small statues. Full report: https://cairoscene.com/Buzz/25-Smuggled-Egyptian-Artefacts-Repatriated-From-the-United-States 🪷
25 Smuggled Egyptian Artefacts Repatriated From the United States

The repatriated artefacts include items from ancient Egypt’s Pharaonic and Greco-Roman periods.

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Antinous the Gay GodMay 4, 2025
🪷 4 May is #BirdDay: Here we see an Egyptian and his BA soul spirit bird from the #Antinoopolis #Fayoum Oasis area. Roman-Egyptian tempera-on-linen mummy shroud from the heyday of the city founded by #Hadrian where #Antinous died in the Nile in Egypt in 130 AD. @GettyMuseum. 🪷
Antinous the Gay GodNov 3, 2024
🪷 #Antinoopolis and the #Fayoum Oasis are famous for the most spectacular mummy faceplate portraits in Egyptian art. Now forensic experts have compared the mummies' faces with the paintings. They say the portraits are very true to life! Full story: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/11/antinoopolis-mummy-portraits-were-true.html 🪷
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ANTINOOPOLIS  is the site of some of the most spectacular portrait art ever found in Egypt.  Art experts have always marveled at the exquisi...

cobOct 13, 2024

Euripide

source : beaux arts magazine

#euripide #grece #egypte #fayoum

Antinous the Gay GodNov 9, 2023
🪷 #Antinoopolis and the #Fayoum Oasis are famous for the most spectacular mummy faceplate portraits in Egyptian art. Now forensic experts have compared the mummies' faces with the paintings. They say the portraits are very true to life! Full story: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/11/antinoopolis-mummy-portraits-were-true.html 🪷
<font face="times new roman" size="+2" color="#FFFFFF"><center><B>ANTINOOPOLIS MUMMY PORTRAITS <br>WERE TRUE TO LIFE, EXPERTS SAY</B></center></font>

ANTINOOPOLIS  is the site of some of the most spectacular portrait art ever found in Egypt.  Art experts have always marveled at the exquisi...

Sherifa ZuhurAug 6, 2023

Fayoumer: Have you seen Egyptian Mongooses in #Fayoum before? 😃 #Egypt @egypt

https://twitter.com/fayoumer/status/1687911536021348353?s=12&t=SXifcukrdByc5Rcc6UyBYw

Fayoumer ® on Twitter

“Have you seen Egyptian Mongooses in #Fayoum before? 😃 #Egypt”

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damian entwistleApr 21, 2023

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this Fayoum mummy portrait of a young Roman who died in the 2nd CE.

#fayoum #MummyPortrait #mummy #death #embalming #remembrance #coffin #FayoumOasis #roman #youth #portrait #encaustic #painting #egypt

Antinous the Gay GodJan 19, 2023
🪷 The face of someone who lived at or near #Antinoopolis in its heyday. Fabulous #Fayoum #mummy face plate portrait! A worshiper of #Antinous? #Antinopolis (3rd C.). Encaustic on Beechwood Panel. Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon. 🪷