sep 5, 400 BC - Encaustic Paint: hot wax-based paint that originated by the Greeks and became a well-known practice in 500-300 BC. Well-known encaustic based paintings would be the Fayum funeral paintings such as this example. The Fayum funeeral paintings were created by different Greek artists in the 1st and 2nd centuries mostly in Egypt.
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sep 5, 400 BC
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~ 2428 years ago