On top of the mummy's wrapped face, Carter found another priceless antiquity, perhaps the most famous and iconic piece of artwork ever crafted: the mask of Tutankhamun. From Matthew Shaer's 2014 article in Smithsonian Magazine: Seeing it up close is not unlike viewing the Giza pyramids...
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Up next, we'll see how lust for gold helped to shape the fortune of empires and ordinary men. Flesh of the Gods The pharaohs of Egypt insisted on being buried in gold, which they believed was the "flesh of the gods." Consider the tomb of Tutankhamun. The boy-king was enshrined in ...
ALLAN: That’s aceremonial swordcarried by the Oba. So we have two of these heads,this headandanother onethat used to be on display at St. Mungo Museum of Religion. Glasgow Museums bought them in auction in 1898. So that was a year afterwards. “A year afterwards” — meaning, after ...
It was a much different story for Chris Juen, who's more on the feature film side as global head of production at Reel FX, which works on Warner Bros. Scoob! and Paramount's Rumble. He came on as a consultant with the purpose of getting three or four projects off the ground. His ...
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