<span>Naturalistic encaustic portraits of the Roman era, from the Fayum Oasis in Egypt, were created as funerary adornments. This type of art refers to adornments that have to do with cemeteries and tombs. It was especially popular in Egypt, where sarcophagi were embellished so as to commemorate the dead. In the Roman empire this was also a custom, only tombstones instead of sarcophagi were decorated. </span><span> </span>
There is no denying the power of art, its ability to further our understanding of the world. But if art enriches our lives it is mainly because it is a fantastic survival system, one that allows us to explore new survival structures and then disseminate them to the entire species through emotional means.
