In the beginning you need to refresh your memory again and read Orthodox, funny stories about the "Fayum portraits":
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%E0...F2%F0%E5%F2%FB
Now, once again, throwing unproven, vacuous stories about ancient times, we'll get right back to 1885...Vienna antiquary "Count", suddenly out of nowhere, appeared a lot of "ancient" portraits on the veneer...
For the legalization and promotion of the keys "Count" connects "authoritative" Egyptologist "Berns"...He, in turn, sends a certain "Fouquet"(say occasional rogue) to find a treasured place(of course, it's fashionable at the time "Klondike" for collectors: Egypt...)...Reached the Fouquet to Egypt or propyl all the royalties in Italy, is not known...On, open-mouthed, listening to sob stories from "Fouquet"...to Know that he was point man allegedly said that he saw the portraits of those wedges...
Of course, "Fouquet" rushed to the place(the one who searches will always find)...It was, of course, in the Fayoum...But he saw a bleak picture: the poor Bedouins of Egypt, the fire burned out of 50(!) dowels, in order to heated in cold Egyptian night...He only managed to grab two dowels from the fire...this great story, world history arts and called, without any hesitation, the key is the divine "Fayum portraits"...
Fifteen hundred or two thousand years, these keys were tied to the headboard coffins-coffins, quietly lying in the ground, but this time by the arrival of Euro-Commissioner Foucault, suddenly they decided to dig up those coffins...of course, those poor Bedouins were terrible aesthetes: did not burn massive wooden sarcophagi to which were attached Fayum portraits, and created a "pioneer fire" from the keys...Hard it was for them to at least 50 acccess sarcophagi for aesthetic keyed fire...Well at least, what Foucault still managed to save two of the key for the world of art...
Was still a "Petrie" who managed to "find" sufficiently large deposits "Fayum portraits"...But that's had and after the beginning of the 20th century no one has been able to repeat the exploits of "Count" and "Petrie" discovery "Fayum portraits"...
Funny stories about the "Fayum portraits", amused as much, to the depths...