the Egyptian funerary mask was unearthed last century and quickly vanished, spending nearly 50 years in obscurity before resurfacing on the European art market in the late 1990s. The St. Louis Art ...

A certified reproduction of King Tut's golden funerary mask from art collector Giovanni Amin's collection is featured in the Louisiana Art & Science Museum's 'Discoveries on the Nile: Exploring ...

A Sicán funerary mask at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, similar to the one recently analyzed by archaeologists. Photo: Wikimedia Commons A team of researchers recently investigated ...

In the Roman era, elite citizens often honoured the death of a family member by creating idealised funerary masks. These "imagines" weren't usually buried with the deceased, but kept as memorials ...

A haunting gold mask that was a part of a tomb of a young ... shown for the first time on the West Coast at the Asian Art Museum beginning Friday. The exhibit, which runs through Jan. 18 ...

Whether providing care for the body of the deceased with intricate textile shrouds and sculpted death masks ... Funerary arts are a pillar of deathcare, and they shed light on the significance of ...

Work on removing a crust of dried glue from the mask of the Egyptian boy king Tutankhamun, following a botched restoration, has commenced. This past Saturday, the Cairo Museum, Egypt, who have ...

A first-century funerary mask from Saudi Arabia helps mark the Sackler ... trusted to recognize an impressive donation of Tibetan art when he sees it. So it was significant that in July 2011 ...

san bernardino >> Video surveillance showed staff members and volunteers at Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art at Cal State ... no movement close to a funerary mask. But somehow, the ...

Those responsible for the embarrassing restoration of King Tut‘s 3,300-year-old funerary mask will be the subject of an emergency disciplinary tribunal, reports Agence-France Presse.