He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

However, unlike the famed Tutankhamun tomb, this find featured no mummy or gold mask. The tomb of an 18th ... archaeological team to recover fallen plaster fragments," the Egyptian Antiquities ...

which was molded like papier-mâché to create funerary masks and mummy cases. Numerous previous studies have analyzed the composition of pastes and mortars used in ancient Egyptian construction.

They could be made out of plaster, cartonnage (a paper-mache material ... archaeologists working at the site of Saqqara discovered a silver mummy mask gilded with gold. It belonged to a priest ...

CHIAPAS, MEXICO—According to a statement released by Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, over the past decade, a collection of 700-year-old stucco sculptures has been ...

Thief or archaeologist, villain or historian, there is no difference – it is said – all will pay the price for interrupting a mummy’s eternal sleep ... steps was a doorway sealed with limestone and ...

Thief or archaeologist, villain or historian, there is no difference – it is said – all will pay the price for interrupting a mummy’s eternal ... with limestone and plaster into which ...

Workers cleared away until a full flight of steps appeared, as well as a door on whose plaster the impression ... Covered with its famous golden mask, the mummy was placed in a first coffin ...

The first of 114 movies and counting — starring Bill Fagerbakke (Harold the mummy), Mario Yedidia (Marshall ... Vaseline and then coating me with Plaster of Paris," he says.

The innermost sarcophagus contained the pharaoh’s mummy wearing a 24-pound solid gold mask. There is evidence ... On one wall, a layer of clay-based plaster that would normally have been applied ...