Encaustic painting was a technique of painting with colored molten wax that originated in Ancient Greece. Over the following centuries, it traveled to Rome and Egypt and was later adopted by early ...

The origins of encaustic painting can be traced back to ancient Greece around the 5th century BCE. The word 'encaustic' ...

Today, nearly 1,000 Fayum paintings exist in collections in Egypt ... The images seem to allow us to gaze directly into the ancient world. “The Fayum portraits have an almost disturbing lifelike ...