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 ...

T he famous death mask of Tutankhamun, the epitome of Ancient Egyptian heritage, is as well-known as the towering Pyramids themselves.The Boy King, who took the throne at just nine and ruled for a ...

An overlooked feature on King Tutankhamun's death mask has revealed how the young ruler was buried. King Tut ruled during Egypt's 18th Dynasty, from 1332 BC to 1323 BC before he died at 19.

Tutankhamun's death mask is one of the most iconic relics of Ancient Egypt, alongside the Pyramids.The Boy King, who ascended to the throne at the tender age of nine and ruled for only 10 years ...

One of the most recognizable relics from ancient Egypt is the iconic blue and gold death mask of King Tutankhamun. For years, it has been understood to belong to the boy king, but new research has ...

Death masks shouldn't be confused with funeral masks — like the ones in Ancient Egypt — which were not made from casts of the deceased's face but by an artist. Why did they make death masks ...

Mask in the form of the jackal head Anubis, ancient Egyptian god of embalming and the dead. It is made of cartonnage, layers of linen and papyrus, stiffened with plaster and then painted.