Archaeologists working in Saqqara recently unearthed three funerary masks at least 1,800 years old. By Franz Lidz When it came to the dicey journey to the afterlife, the more affluent citizens of ...
Laboratory tests on Tutankhamun’s celebrated gold funerary mask reopened a century-old debate about its origin. A team working between Cairo and Oxford examined the alloy’s chemical makeup to identify ...
Masquerades with brass masks (gbendekolo) perform at funerals for Limba chiefs where they dance around the edges of a huge bonfire defying its heat and flames. The flattened masks are worn to the side ...