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Egypt's Fayoum mummy portraits to travel abroad for first time after restoration

Egypt unveiled Sunday a restored version of the "Tondo of the Two Brothers," a prized second-century painting from the famed Fayoum portraits.

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Egypt unveiled Sunday a restored version of the "Tondo of the Two Brothers," a prized second-century painting from the famed Fayoum portraits. Specialists from Rome worked alongside conservators from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir—where the collection is usually kept—for three weeks to restore the artwork, officials said at a press conference.

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