More than 3,000 years ago, ancient Egyptian artists flubbed a royal portrait that was discovered in a tomb within a vast necropolis, a new study suggests. The painting, of the pharaoh Ramesses II ...

Now, using a new type of portable X-ray scanner, scientists could study paintings at the site of Ramses II in the tomb of Nakhtamon – a priest responsible for the daily provisioning of altars ...

The first painting—a portrait of Ramesses II—is located in the tomb of a cleric named Nakhtamun, and the testing revealed that it underwent numerous alterations. Artists reworked several ...

This could also mean that many different people worked on the painting over a prolonged period of time. As for the portrait of Ramesses II in the tomb chapel at Nakhtamun, the analysis revealed ...

the team also analyzed a portrait of Ramesses II found in the tomb of Nakhtamun, which has traditionally been dated to the 19th dynasty. The painting contained several subtle alterations ...

PICTORIAL PROGRAMME: The wall decorations and the architecture of Ramses II’s tomb have ... the value of the art and effort that adorns the walls of the tomb, and the result is the current ...