Historians have acknowledged before that the Egyptian court may have been forced to rely on readily available items for King Tutankhamun’s funeral — including someone else’s burial mask.

This mask would have been worn by a priest during funeral rituals.Mask in the form of the jackal head Anubis, ancient Egyptian god of embalming and the dead. It is made of cartonnage, layers of ...

In Ancient Egypt, male pharaohs were not typically depicted with pierced ears in their funerary masks, as ear piercings were ...

A century after the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb, some overlooked objects may reveal clues to a forgotten ancient ...

In 1922, the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, marked one of the most significant finds of ...

The tomb of King Thutmose II has been found, but what does this achievement mean? Is it an archaeological breakthrough of ...

Ever since British archaeologist Howard Carter first peered into the tomb of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun ... propose that his eye-catching gold funerary mask may have been intended ...

This mask would have been worn by a priest during funeral rituals.Mask in the form of the jackal head Anubis, ancient Egyptian god of embalming and the dead. It is made of cartonnage, layers of ...