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A Mysterious Mask Embedded in the Walls of a Cistern Found in the Ancient Egyptian City of Ptolemais in Libya
On the coast of the Cyrenaica region in present-day Libya lies the ancient city of Ptolemais, founded by the Egyptian pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty ... Among the most intriguing finds is a ...
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Did we miss something? Intriguing clue on Tutankhamun’s death mask may reveal new secrets
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 ...
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An introduction to Ancient Egypt
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 ...
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Picture of the day: Tutankhamun’s gold mask at Egyptian Museum after beard restoration
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 ...
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Valley of the Kings
The ancient Egyptians built massive public monuments to their pharaohs. But they also spent ... Treasures—like the golden masks found with King Tut—are dazzling, but the tombs also contained ...