In 1888 the British archeologist Sir William Flinders Petrie discovered in the site of Hawara, where king Amenemhat III (12th Dynasty) built his pyramid, a series of beautiful and vivid paintings on wooden boards, known as «Fayum portraits», attached to upper-class mummies and made during the Roman period. The portraits covered the faces of mummies and at present-day about 900 portraits have been discovered. This young woman wearing two strings of emeralds and a pair of gold earrings was called Demos and died at the age of 24 during the reign of the emperor Domitian (51-96 AD). The Fayum portraits usually have inscriptions with the name and the profession of the deceased.