
A funeral mask hammered from a single sheet of gold, with a handlebar moustache and pointed beard. Heinrich Schliemann found it in 1876 in Shaft Grave V at Mycenae and believed he had gazed on the face of Homer's Agamemnon. It in fact dates to the 16th century BCE, centuries before any Trojan War, and a few scholars have questioned whether it is genuine.
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The ears are cut out rather than engraved, and no other Mycenaean face has this beard and moustache: the very details at the heart of the authenticity debate.
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