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  2. New Evidence Shows King Tut’s Legendary Burial Mask Isn’t ...

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    King Tut’s iconic mask is 21 inches tall, inlaid with precious stones, and features a 5.5-pound golden beard as part of the larger 22.5-pound gold mask. That beard may have been an afterthought ...

  3. Mask of Tutankhamun - Wikipedia

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    The mask of Tutankhamun is a gold funerary mask that belonged to Tutankhamun, who reigned over the New Kingdom of Egypt from 1332 BC to 1323 BC, during the Eighteenth Dynasty. After being buried with Tutankhamun's mummy for over 3,000 years, it was found amidst the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by the British archaeologist Howard Carter at ...

  4. Tutankhamun's mummy - Wikipedia

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    Tutankhamun was the 13th pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of the New Kingdom and ruled for about a decade c. 1355–1346 BCE. A majority of his reign was devoted to restoring Egyptian culture, including religious and political policies; his predecessor and father Akhenaten had altered many Egyptian cultural aspects during his reign, and one of Tutankhamun's many restoration policies included ...

  5. Death mask - Wikipedia

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    A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the corpse. Death masks may be mementos of the dead or be used for creation of portraits. The main purpose of the death mask from the Middle Ages until the 19th century was to serve as a model for ...

  6. Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun

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    This exhibition does not include either the gold death mask that was a popular exhibit from The Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition, or the mummy itself. The Egyptian Government has determined that these artifacts are too fragile to withstand travel, and thus they will permanently remain in Egypt. [24]

  7. Portraiture in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Nefertiti bust, from the 18th dynasty, New kingdom Egyptian death mask from the 18th dynasty. Louvre, Paris portrait of Meritamun, 19th dynasty of Egypt. Portraiture in ancient Egypt forms a conceptual attempt to portray "the subject from its own perspective rather than the viewpoint of the artist ... to communicate essential information about the object itself". [1]

  8. Talk:Mask of Tutankhamun - Wikipedia

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    A fact from Mask of Tutankhamun appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 December 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Tutankhamun's mask (pictured) contains many gemstone inlays, including lapis lazuli, carnelian, quartz, obsidian, turquoise, amazonite, and faience?

  9. Tutankhamun's meteoric iron dagger - Wikipedia

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    The other iron objects were wrapped with Tutankhamun's mummy; these include a miniature headrest contained inside the golden death mask, an amulet attached to a golden bracelet and a dagger blade with gold haft. All were made by relatively crude methods with the exception of the dagger blade which is clearly expertly produced.