Was Pharaoh Tutankhamun a “cast-off king”? Evidence shows that his shimmering golden death mask was made for someone else.

Carter discovered the steps leading to his burial chamber on Nov. 4, 1922, in the wind-swept Valley of the Kings at Luxor, ...

A golden mask inlaid with lapis-lazuli and turquoise. A solid gold coffin. Gold statues and gold necklaces. The treasure has been shown in museums around the world. Its display at the Egyptian ...

The intense blue lapis lazuli of the headdress has been traced to some of ... But she says the earring holes are a dead ...

A member of the team, a water boy, accidentally stumbled upon a stone that turned out to be the first step of an ancient ...

When the beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo ... solid gold funerary mask is encrusted with lapis lazuli and semi-precious stones.

However, this modern manmade substance has also been manipulated into convincing imitations of organic gems like amber, pearl, and coral, or aggregate materials like jade, turquoise and lapis ... More ...

IN the course of some work on lapis lazuli, we were astonished to find how wide was the discrepancy between the specific gravities of our specimens and the values accorded to this rock by all the ...

Magazine, MyLondon, GRM Daily, and more. Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/facebook The "extraordinary" tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian woman has been found 4,000 years after her death.