The gold mask that lay over the mummy of the young king Tutankhamun, who died around 1323 BCE. Two layers of gold weighing over ten kilograms are inlaid with lapis lazuli, carnelian, quartz, obsidian and coloured glass, showing him in a striped nemes headcloth. Howard Carter's team uncovered it in 1925. Some Egyptologists think it was first made for another ruler, Neferneferuaten.
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On the brow rise a vulture and a cobra, emblems of Upper and Lower Egypt. A spell from the Book of the Dead is inscribed across the shoulders and back.
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