Original sentence: After the person was deceased, the portrait panel was placed over the mummified individuals face, an Egyptian tradition.By the Roman period, much of the "Greek" population of Fayum was made-up of either Hellenized Egyptians or people of mixed Egyptian-Greek origins.Fayum became a cosmopolitan city during the Graeco-Roman period, where Egyptians and Greeks lived side by side.It is estimated that as much as 30 percent of the population was Greek, with the rest being native Egyptians.Some of its inhabitants were Greek soldiers who were settled by the Ptolemaic kings in reclaimed lands, but soon native Egyptians were brought from all over the country to settle and work, as attested by personal names, local cults and recovered papyri.The latter came from the Nile Delta, Upper Egypt, Oxyrhynchus and Memphis.The surviving paintings are predominantly from the Fayum region in Roman Egypt, where the practice was common and the dry heat preserved many of the paintings until today.The wax portraits were completed during the life of the individual and displayed in their home, a custom that belonged to the traditions of Greek art
Edited sentence: After the person was deceased, the portrait panel was placed over the mummified individuals face.Fayum portraits represent mostly Greek inhabitants of Egypt and are some of the most interesting examples of surviving Greek art in Ancient Egypt.The dry climate of the region preserved many of the paintings until today.The practice was common and the painters of the Fayum were either Greek residents dating from the Ptolemaic period of the late 4th century B.The surviving paintings are predominantly from the Al Fayyum region in Egypt and were completed during Hellenistic and Roman periods in a province of Egypt which had been settled primarily by Greek colonists, many of whom were soldier-veterans.The wax portraits were completed during the life of the individual and displayed in their home, this custom belonged to the traditions of Greek art.or those who had inherited the Greek artistic tradition