Discovery of the mask of Tutankhamun
Descubrimiento de la máscara funeraria de Tutankamón
- Date
- 28 de octubre de 1925 · confidence high
- Place
- Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt
- Credited to
- Howard Carter
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Three years after finding Tutankhamun's intact tomb, Howard Carter's team opened the innermost of the three coffins and found on the mummy the gold mask inlaid with semi-precious stones, seen for the first time in about 3,250 years.
Wikidata flags a date/person mismatch because the tomb was discovered in 1922, three years before the mask was removed from the mummy in 1925.
What it led to
- A universal icon of Ancient Egypt and a driver of Egyptian archaeological tourism
- Later studies of New Kingdom goldsmithing and mummification