In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

Creating the Grand Egyptian Museum has become a seemingly Sisyphean task, with years of delays suggesting it would be ...

Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...

(For now, Tutankhamen’s gold funeral mask, among the most iconic archaeological artifacts in the world, is still on display at the old Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square.) Also inaccessible was a ...

In November 2024, the company acquired Egyptian gold producer Centamin, adding the large-scale, long-life, world-class Tier 1 asset (Sukari) to its portfolio. It has the potential to produce ...

The piece of art was mostly made of gold, making it weigh over 10 kilograms. Experts have argued that the golden mask was originally made for an Egyptian woman and that's why it looks fit for a queen.

Tutankhamun's gold funerary mask, now preserved at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, remains a popular symbol of Ancient Egypt. Among the 5,398 items found in the tomb - the only royal tomb in the ...

Tutankhamun's burial mask is made of gold and precious stones. Mark Fischer via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 The ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was buried in a tomb filled with ...

A recent article published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology proposes that ... and covered with gesso (a white pigment and binder mixture) and gold. In spite of the difference in materials ...

Among the burial items were a gold mask made of electrum and three swords, which were initially assumed to be associated with the man buried beside her but are now believed to belong to the woman ...

Though he reigned for less than ten years, Tutankhamun, widely known as the Boy King, has become Ancient Egypt’s most famous ... including his iconic gold mask—almost entirely untouched ...