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Mask of Tutankhamun

Gold mask of Egyptian pharaoh

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 5, 2026
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The mask of Tutankhamun is a gold funerary mask that belonged to Tutankhamun, who reigned over the New Kingdom of Egypt from 1332 BC to 1323 BC, during the Eighteenth Dynasty. After being buried with Tutankhamun's mummy for over 3,000 years, it was found in 1922 following the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb three years earlier by the British archaeologist Howard Carter at the Valley of the Kings. It is on public display at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

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“Mask of Tutankhamun” enters the record as gold mask of Egyptian pharaoh. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mask, Tutankhamun and Gold can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1332, 1323, 1922—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mask, Tutankhamun and Gold.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mask of Tutankhamun” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.