King Tut’s iconic mask is 21 inches tall, inlaid with precious stones, and features a 5.5-pound golden beard as part of the larger 22.5-pound gold mask. That beard may have been an afterthought when ...

Famous Tutankhamun’s Death Mask Reveals ‘Overlooked Feature’, Archaeologists Say It Belonged to Someone Else The famous King ...

The idea that the mask may have belonged to Queen Nefertiti, Tutankhamun’s stepmother, was initially proposed by Egyptologist ...

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One of the most iconic Egyptian relics, the death of King Tutankhamun, perhaps was never made for the late pharaoh, according to a new study carried out by a team from the University of York in the UK ...

Professor Joann Fletcher of the University of York told History Hit audiences that the Tutankhamun's ears are an "overlooked" ...

Queen Nefertiti co-ruled with Pharaoh Akhenaten, whose reign transformed ancient Egypt's religion and gender roles in the ...

They research team focused on a specific detail that had previously gone unnoticed: the perforated ears of the mask.

Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves had previously made similar claims about the origins of the mask, suggesting in 2015 that the striking gold face covering had originally been made for the Pharoah's ...

The team from the University of York in the UK says that the holes in the mask's ears indicate that it was actually intended for a high-ranking woman or child, possibly Tutankhamun's stepmother ...

An overlooked feature on King Tutankhamun's death mask has revealed how the young ruler was buried. King Tut ruled during ...