Behind the Mask of Tutankhamun

Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves is Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fellow, Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Here you can see him discuss the latest scholarship and research into Tutankhamun golden death mask.

This lecture took place The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on 6th of March 2011. Dr Reeves reveals the astonishing secret of this object's original intent.

On May 5th, 2011, at 3:00 pm Dr Reeves will lecture on the Coffin of Haremhab at the Museum. 

Met to return Tutankhamen's bronze dog, sphinx

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has agreed to repatriate a collection of ancient Egyptian objects including a lapis-lazuli sphinx that once adorned a bracelet worn by King Tutankhamen, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities  said.

Curators at the museum have established that all 19 antiquities, which also include a three-quarter-inch-high bronze dog, come from the tomb of the boy-pharaoh, which was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. They are among a number of objects that were acquired by the Met after the deaths of Carter and Lord Carnarvon, the English earl who sponsored the expedition.

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