Was King Tut’s Burial Mask Originally Intended For Queen Nefertiti? This theory has been proposed before. As the Greek Reporter notes, British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves proposed in 2015 that ...

The four clay troughs were initially thought to have served as stands for gold-plated staffs. Now, a researcher has presented ...

A recent analysis by researchers from the University of York suggests that King ... notion that the mask was not originally ...

King Tutankhamun’s iconic death mask may not have been crafted for him ... Professor Joann Fletcher believes Tutankhamun’s burial was hurried, evident in the black blotches on the tomb walls ...

Whatever flaws King Tut inherited in this life, however, the image he left for eternity is one of luminous perfection—his iconic funeral mask crafted of gold, regarded by the ancient Egyptians ...

When Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s burial chamber in 1922 and catalogued ... mummified remains were themselves symbolic. “The king was being shown as Osiris, more so than was usual ...

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