You're welcome! Which other historical period would you like to see here in the future?

@@panagiotisconstantinou oh my goodness ! If you haven’t done it, the Maharajas of India - or the Muslim Caliphate would be excellent - I was born in India so these are quite close to my heart ♥️

Are we looking at the same people?

The second images look to me like they're greeks while the rest look like modern egyptians.

@@hia5235 нет, они разные люди, эти люди которые изображены на фаюмских портретах, жили во времена Римской империи около I- II веках нашей эры. Может быть у этих людей мужчин и женщин которые изображены на фаюмских портретах были также имена, их может быть звали или называли по имени.

@@anthonymanderson7671 на фаюмских портретах, изображениях, рисунков, могут быть греки, и римляне, на счёт египтян не знаю, рисовали людей египтян на фаюмских портретов художники в 1 и 2 веках нашей эры в эпоху Римской империи.

​@@user-jp5xl1ui7x The name of these mummies are of egyptian origin and so is their religion. However, their style is very Roman.

Most of modern Egyptians look like those people so much.

​@@armajhkc609Shut up, are you crazy? They are all insistent, not influenced by Romanian culture

Thank you so much 😀

@@panagiotisconstantinou Please keep doing this.. You are literally bringing history alive .. So Beautiful.. I’m going to share this with anyone I can think of .. Your work is sublime .. Sorry I’m literally gushing now ..

Thank you for your kind words 🙂

For sure 😊!

The Arabian people also are Mediterranean type.

An Arab trying to be close to white

That not a true assessment. The Scandinavians are dominated by I-haplogroup which is by many standard DNA studies of Middle Eastern origin.

I don't see it

@@wankawanka3053 as egyptian yes they look like us

😂😂😂 Most Egyptians are not like that, in fact These images are of Greek and Levantine people who have a Hellenistic culture. The Egyptians did not have a Hellenistic culture

@@wankawanka3053 Because you are blind

Indeed, it sounds very mystical!

Love the song!

They weren't all Egyptians, some of them mingled with Egyptians but some kept their Greek identity, speaking from experience as I have some friends who are Greeks from Egypt whose families were exiled from Egypt by Nasser.

@@panagiotisconstantinou It is ok if some mixed with Egyptians. But still the whole theme is Egyptian and the art and the idea are obviously Egyptian that just evolved by time by replacing the burial mask with a burial portrait. Looking at previous sarcophagus and mummies one can immediately spot they are for the same people.

Because it is indeed Greco-roman art, but coupled with Egyptian funerary tradition. Any book or academic work dealing with this topic will qualify it as such. Of course, the painters and the people who are represented were Egyptians, as much as this burial tradition. But it doesn't change the fact that that way of painting portraits is purely Greco-roman and didn't exist in ancien Egypt before it became a Ptolemaic Kingdom or a Roman province. The painting techniques used are Greek, and the tradition of painting very realistic protraits is Roman. Similar portraits existed all over the empire on various mediums and for different uses, even though they were put on mummies only in Egypt. Here, the religious theme and usage is Egyptian, but the iconography, style and technique are Greco-roman. Exactly the same way some temples built for Egyptian deities under the Roman era used typical Greco-roman architecture, while the statues of such deities where of Greco-roman style. Same for mosaics, theaters and other things built under the roman era. They are called "roman" because they are representatives of roman style and artistic tradition and representatives of what was being built or created at the time inside the roman empire. For example, a Roman era portrait found in France, Tunisia or anywhere else (using roman techniques and artistic tradition) would still be called a "roman portrait", no matter its usage. Of course, qualifying the Fayum portraits as "Egyptian" is not false either as they were painted in Egypt and are representatives of Egyptian funerary tradition. But they are not typically Egyptian artistically and technically.

@@Vinnie92350 I agree about the temples building, we do call them greek or roman temples in Egypt based on their style and i do agree that these portraits were during the Greco-Roman era and that the people in the drawings are clearly influenced by the Greco-Roman style. But during the Ptolemaic era, the situation was different than the Roman era. During the Ptolemaic Egypt wasn’t a Greek province, it was an Egyptian country ruled by greeks who - kind of - Egyptianized themselves and at the same time introduced the Greek culture, so it was a mixture of cultures (mainly Egyptian with a Greek touch). During the Roman era, Egypt was a Roman province, so basically most of the buildings were purely of Roman style (the purely Egyptian style faded away) except at the beginning of the Roman era you can find the Kalabsha temple 30 bc with the first Roman Emperor ruler with Egyptian style. I don’t mind calling the art by its origin, the thing is i do recognize the Greco-Roman buildings, or Sculptures but for these portraits, I don’t think i saw similar portraits in Greece or Rome dating back to the same period of the Fayoum portraits and knowing the Egyptians burial traditions i would assume it is Egyptian, I don’t mind at all being corrected, if you have links to similar Greek or Roman portraits of the same era, i would love to see them as even the oldest Roman portrait drawings or fresco drawings were different (maybe same idea but different quality and style).

Dont be upset...they even claimed Jesus as european at one time..🤣🤣

Ευχαριστώ! Δες όσα θες, δεν με πειράζει 😉

@@panagiotisconstantinou Μπραβο σου κ παλι! ❤🙂

Maybe but also possible that they died young given the mortality rate back then.

Yes, the mortality rate was very high. Even to this day when someone from Greece says how many kids he has, the other responds "na sou zisei" which means " I hope they live" . A leftover from that past.

@@panagiotisconstantinou omg "na sou zisei" seems like japanese language to me

And also like modern Greeks and Italians ❤

These portraits were mostly of Greeks who settled in Egypt and made the majority of the upper class , I’m assuming some of them end up mixing with the native population at some point.

​@@anaz5918 No , dear. These portraits are for Egyptians who dead at the roman age, so they were drawn in the roman style. Like the age of ancient Egyptians , they were drawn in the pharaohnic style.

@@ashm6653 no...he definitely right. They had Greek names and the inscriptions on the portraits are in Greek. The only thing Egyptian about these poritats were they use (buried with the body, typical Egyptian religious burial rites).

In fact, most Egyptians are not like this. These pictures are of people from Greece and the Levant. The Egyptians did not have a Hellenistic culture

It was the portrait style.

because he wants to make them look greek/roman 😆

Lmao no his hair seem's straight in potrait Than curly

AAHAHAHA !!!!! WHAT ? Are you being serious ?? These portraits are of real people . They are Fayum mummy portraits ! There are hundreds of them. They were done in the Roman era of Egypt ! This is what Egyptians looked like ! Hair looks pretty similar !

​​@@peshmerge44 Go look up fayum mummy portraits ! They are of EGYPTIANS living from around the time of Christ to 300 AD ! There is no hiding anything with these Portraits , its a real depiction of the people ! Some have curly hair, some straight ! I dont see the big deal. Other than you and others looking for stupid shneeeit ! Per usual !

exactly very strange that he did that

Beware of da KZfaq KKKlan of yt supremacy

They're ashamed of their real history so they try to appropriate the history and culture of others. They do this to Egyptians, Jews, Greeks, Italians, Scandinavians, Romans, American Indians and the Japanese. They are truly pathetic.

I will certainly do another clip about the Fayum portraits 🙂

She was Greek and Persian so definitely not black. I wish we could be like this with all historical inaccuracies. I want accurate Jesus and Cleopatra.

Cuz these portraits are for Egyptians neither romans nor greeks. Greeks lived in Alexandria not fayum.And these portraits look typically like modern Egyptians

​@@ashm6653the ancient Greeks and romans were never pure yt civilizations lol that's what you clowns don't seem to understand. That's the reason they look like this because both of those places use to have massive arab & African populations in their lands. You just don't want to admit it in schools. These people were Greco Romans not Africans.

@@ashm6653@ashm6653 Plotemy set up an area for Greeks to settle in Fayyum. Around 40% of Fayyum was greek at the time so it was pretty high percentage of them in that area.

@@Laila-hl8dc stop drinking please

Эти люди из прошлого около 1 и 2 веках нашей эры времена Римской империи.

Sì Fabrizio. La verità è che gli Egiziani odierni, sia i Musulmani che i Copti, tracciano la maggioranza dei propri geni all’Egitto antico. La conquista Araba non ha rimpiazzato il popolo, bensì cultura e lingua. Siamo Arabizzati, non Arabi. Ed orgogliosi della nostra ricca storia, anche se si parla di migliaia di anni fa.

@@EGYPT.ATREES Но было ещё и персидское завоевание Древнего Египта в 6 веке до нашей эры это в 525 году до н.э. Египет был завоеван персидским царём Киром Великим. Персы захватили Египет ещё до арабов и арабского завоевание.

modern egyptians are mixed with subsaharan slaves

This also appears on the mummies, all of whom have prominent features and sculpted ones

@@notiela9711 No, the faces on these prortrets are not even realistic that's not how the human face looks like. I have seen the Egyptians and they were actually quite ugly and probably also because of inbred, but did not look like that either. You have to understand that painters didn't paint them exactly how they looked like. They always painted the way fashion and beauty standard of that time was. Smaller lips is something you almost always see in portraits and trust me not everybody back in the day had small lips. That simply was a beauty standard. As well that they portraits female bodies and male bodies in certain ways not because they actually looked that way but because that was the beauty standard.

So even you could tell that the skin tones were not matching but your reaction is to insist that the painters were not painting realistically? Wow

You're thinking of Greek vase paintings and sculpture from about four centuries earlier, and a few hundred miles north. Greek art varied by medium, time, and place. And as the video noted, we don't have other surviving examples of ancient Greek easel paintings to compare.

This is in Egypt

You're such a child. They were Greek mercenaries and their descendants brought by Alexander the great or the Hellenistic kings. Maybe you should watch like 100 times more to get it. You watched a few reaction videos about Netflix's Cleopatra and now you get cute.

@@panagiotisconstantinou The DNA prouve that they are egyptian !

Lol the ancient ones were from Africa black as as Kushites like the bible described them in amos 9:7 not the modern converts who you see day to day. Stop the historical revisionism to support yt supremacy.

Absolutely not

@@orvillegrant3304 They were portraits of ancient Egyptians . And they were not white european. Go look up fayum mummy portraits. There is a lot !

@@salvatoresalernatano5964 they were Greeks who settled in Egypt and made up the majority of the upper class eventually some married local natives Egyptians mixing with them .

@@anaz5918 Greeks with hair that looked like that ? Please !! They were a mixed society !!! Period!

@@salvatoresalernatano5964 did you even bother to read his video ? No one is denying Egypt is ethically diverse however I would suggest replaying the video and actually read it .

Thank you for the observation buddy.