A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Today, nearly 1,000 Fayum paintings exist in collections in Egypt ... the portraits lingered in a sort of classification limbo, considered Egyptian by Greco-Roman scholars and Greco-Roman by ...

Dr. Impey, who first described the site, likened them to certain predynastic Egyptian paintings, and this equation is now assumed by a number of prehistorians. Attention might be directed ...