The portraits of Faiyum | Rafael Pérez Arroyo, Hymn to the Seven Hathor

"Faces from the Past"
The portraits of Faiyum (Egypt - I th BC - II th AD)
Music: Hymn to the Seven Hathor (from 'Music in the Age of the Pyramids')
composed, arranged and conducted by Rafael Pérez Arroyo
Arroyo's Hathor Ensemble
Music in the Age of the Pyramids represents the first try of a reconstruction of the music of Ancient Egypt. After ten years of research carried out by the Spanish musicologist Rafael Pérez Arroyo, with the collaboration of Syra Bonet, the Centro de Estudios Egipcios has published a scientific works on the music, musicians, iconography, dance and musical instruments of Ancient Egypt.
The result of this research work is a book and a record entitled 'Music in the Age of Pyramids': the music is performed by Arroyo's Hathor Ensemble. The realization of the music by Arroyo was based on study of the metric structure of hymns which survive in writing, on discussion of music theory from heiroglyphics, sonic descriptions by ancient authors, and ancient iconography. Arroyo has also tried to decode the hand gestures (the same source used for Biblical music), and discovered three basic modes for Ancient Egyptian music.
More info: www.rafaelperez...
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Faiyum (Arabic: الفيوم‎) is a city in Middle Egypt and the capital of the Faiyum Governorate. It is 130 Km southwest of Cairo and occupies part of the ancient site of Crocodilopolis. Its name in English is also spelled as Fayum, Fayoum, Al Fayyum or El Faiyūm. It was formerly named Madīnet el Faiyūm. The name Faiyum may also refer to the Faiyum Oasis, although it is commonly used by Egyptians today to refer to the city.
The modern name of the city comes from Coptic 'efiom/peiom' (whence the proper name 'payoum'), meaning 'the Sea' or 'the Lake', which in turn comes from late Egyptian 'pA y-m' of the same meaning, a reference to the nearby Lake Moeris.
Faiyum is the source of some famous death masks or mummy portraits painted during the greek-roman occupation of the area. The Egyptians continued their practice of burying their dead, despite the Roman preference for cremation. While under the control of the Roman Empire, Egyptian death masks were painted on wood in a pigmented wax technique called encaustic: the Faiyum mummy portraits represent this technique.
More: en.wikipedia.or...
In italian language: it.wikipedia.or...

[@romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD Attempts to extract ancient DNA or aDNA from Ancient Egyptian remains have yielded mainly Eurasian DNA types from the Dakleh Oasis cemetery site (from Southern Egypt), and they show a considerable increase in the amount of sub Saharan mitchondrial DNA over the past 2,000 years that means it was the blacks who migrated to egypted not the other way around as there are no native blacks in north Africa

[@Alisia56]

thank you for the great video and fantastic music to build mood........grazie......

[@eliopoulosgiannis]

Very nice video, excellent music.

[@minuicch]

Grazie a te per l'apprezzamento...

[@nuraxis]

Bel video anche questo....splendidi quei volti che ci guardano ancora con tanta luce negli occhi, da un passato così lontano ormai...

[@Lugarurmsr]

Thank you pictures can speak One thousand words.

[@minuicch]

Muchas Gracias! Creo que los autores de las pinturas son más de uno y que son desconocidos...

[@Bla31n]

It's my guess that the art presented here influenced the icons of the Orthodox Church.

[@minuicch]

@Meridiuso Hymn to the Seven Hathor (from 'Music in the Age of the Pyramids') composed, arranged and conducted by Rafael Pérez Arroyo

[@minuicch]

@Meridiuso You can find the answer above in "INFORMATION" about this video... Thanks

[@minuicch]

@roudy1689 You can find the answer above in "INFORMATION" about this video...

[@romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD Really so have you been to the head Coptic church in Giza Egypt

[@Gonzoidzz]

True faces of pre Christian Egypt.

[@nakinilerak]

Ahem - what's the gentleman at 5.10 holding in his hand?

[@pitotipp]

@STARCHYLDGOD Picture one: 1. Greek 2. Egypt 3. Greek 4. Roman 5. Greek 6. Egypt 7. Egypt 8. Egypt. 9. Roman 10. Greek 11. Roman 12. Roman 13. Egypt 14. Egypt 15. Egyptians 16. Greek, 17. Egypt 18. Roman 19. Egypt 20. Greek 21. Egypt 22. Greek 23. Egypt 24. Egypt 25. Egypt 26. Egypt 27. Roman 28. Egypt 29. Egypt 30. Egypt 31. Roman 32. Greek 33. Roman .....etc some examples of faces from Ancient egypt !!!

[@Meridiuso]

WOW WHAT THE MUSIC NAME

[@minuicch]

They died so young because at their time the life expectations was very limited. They date to the Roman period, from the late 1st century BC to the middle of the second century AD. They were neither Christians nor Jews. During the Roman rule of Egypt, much of the population of Faiyum was made-up of either Hellenized Egyptians or people of mixed Egyptian-Greek origins, cultures and religion.

[@romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD I don't care one way or the other I just listen to the experts and read books on Egypt and look at there statues and drawings writings Dr. Zahi Hawass, the current Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, has stated that "The portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilization as black has no element of truth to it;" and that "Ancient Egyptians are not Arabs and are not Africans despite the fact that Egypt is in Africa I guess u no more then him

[@Meridiuso]

@minuicch thinkx u really nice

[@baalhaophanim]

@minuicch No morían necesariamente j´´ovenes, el retrato se pintaba en la flor de la edad y se conservaba hasta el momento de la muerte que podia sobrevenir mucho despues, y se colocaba el retrato para que ealma lograra la inmortalidad en su akmé, su grado mas alto de salud

[@NicoleCzarnecki]

Question: Why did so many of them die so young, and were any of them Christians or Messianic Jews, or even non-Messianic Jews? (I'm Jewish, and I don't want to distinguish between "Christians" and "Jews" as though no Jew can be a Christian, or vice versa.).

[@minuicch]

@nakinilerak Is not what you are thinking...Is just a ritual form of bread.

[@minuicch]

Ancient egyptian...

[@romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD Some are egyptians some are Greek but none are blacks

[@Pimsleurable]

What language is this?

[@romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD You keep changing you mind I thought you said these people were Greeks and Romans now there African and Coptic this is before there was a Coptic church these people worshiped the ancient egyptisn gods they were not Christians

[@romanljc]

not all east Africans of corse

[@pitotipp]

@STARCHYLDGOD no! some of them are as well Egyptians !

[@romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD @STARCHYLDGOD I thought you were talking about Egypt now we are talking about east African well to bad for them to because dna of east Africans is not pure black ether they have dna from middle east that got there from neolthic times thats over 10,000 years ago but at least they still have black skin

[@romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD you did lie I ask you if you have been to the head. Of the coptic church in giza there is no head church in giza its in Cairo how could you not no that and you even said u been there hahaha

[@Bla31n]

How very odd that this hymn seems to me similar to Oriental music.

[@romanljc]

All we know from there writings is that Egyptians invaded and inslaved black people exloploided them for there gold also at times they used them as allies in war but the civilztion culture was not a black one there language is semtic language like the Arabs and Jews and obouvisly they got alot of there idears from mesoptania a much older civilztion as well that they traded with Like I said why is there know great old advance civilztion like that in the all black parts Africa

[@romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD Lol stop lieing your a Coptic ethiopean you mean or convert lol nice try

[@romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD Because the head Coptic church is not in Giza it's in Cairo Egypt that's why you are lying lol I just tested a real Egyptian copt would no that like I ask a Italian roman cathlic were the head church is they no it's the Vatican rome lol Your lying lol Real Egyptian copts are not black they look like the rest of the Egyptians lol

[@romanljc]

@STARCHYLDGOD I still don't no what u r saying u think they were originally black something stupid like that I guess hahahaha no coptic would say that lol your lieing Coptic don't have same DNA as blacks