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.