Since its discovery more than a century ago, the iconic burial mask of King Tut has remained perhaps the defining image of ...

Ever since British archaeologist Howard Carter first peered into the tomb of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, 100 years ...

When the beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, employees tried to reattach it with glue. When the botched restoration was noticed it made ...

It is a mask for a rich ancient Egyptian. This mask was put on top of a mummy's bandages to protect the head. This is a blue glazed shabti figure of a pharaoh called Sety I. A shabti is a little ...

The mummified body of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh has been studied for the first ... opening it in order to preserve the exquisite face mask and bandages. Computed tomography (CT) scans have ...

Titus Flavius Demetrius was a Roman citizen living in Egypt who wanted to be buried in the Egyptian way.This gold covered mummy mask was made for the Roman citizen Titus Flavius Demetrius who died ...

He died at 19, possibly from an infection linked to a broken leg. In ancient Egypt, death masks helped a pharaoh’s soul recognize their body. Pharaohs’ masks were often crafted from gold ...

“This mask was not made for an adult male pharaoh ... A computer illustration showing the layout of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. Hand-me-down king King Tut was only nine ...