Numerous previous studies have analyzed the composition of pastes and mortars used in ancient Egyptian construction. Some of these substances were found to be genuine plaster - which consists of ...

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 ...

Tutankhamun's death mask is "one of the most recognised images ... mosaic of precious stones" and housed in Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum, is "surely one of the world's most iconic objects ...

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 ...