What do you know about Tutankhamun's mask? The most expensive piece of antiquities in the world
Egyptologists have classified King Tutankhamun's mask as the most expensive artifact in the world. Its material value is priceless. The importance of the royal mask is due to its discovery in a unique case in the tomb of the young pharaoh, along with royal holdings exceeding 5,000 gold pieces.
The weight of the golden mask is 10.23 kilograms.
The mask was made of a single piece of gold, and the scholars based this on the elaborate inlay of precious stones around the face of the mask.
The royal mask took 70 full days to be made, and a group of the most skilled sculptors and artists of the ancient era participated in its manufacture.
The golden mask includes a royal headdress with a necklace of 3 branches, a false beard and a necklace on the chest, and in the forefront of which is a cobra snake to protect the young pharaoh in this other world, other than two holes in the ears.
The mask is made of pure gold, as a reflection of the symbol of the color of the sun and its association with funeral rites and resurrection in the afterlife.
- The gold that the mask is made of, has been treated in a perfect manner and color gradations that formed a breakthrough in the history of jewelry in the ancient era, especially with the delicate and rare details of the mask.
The mask design is unique and not duplicated in the rest of the royal coffins that have been discovered previously.
The mask is among the treasures of the tomb of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun, in which 5,398 artifacts were found, including clothes, jewelry, furniture, weapons, chariots and a throne chair.
It is believed that the royal masks were a symbol in the ancient Egyptian faith and a means of linking the person with the resurrection, and through which the soul identifies with the personality of the deceased and returns to him in the afterlife.
