Researchers have discovered an artifact which is believed to be part of a huge $4 billion haul of treasure hidden somewhere off the Florida coast. The ancient funeral mask—estimated to be up to ten or ...

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 ...

The United States is an excellent hub for discoveries. Lake Michigan has just produced a rare tugboat, linked to the wreck of the J.C. Ames. However, the U.S. is not known for the Panel of Fayoum ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A St. Louis museum can keep hold of a 3,200-year-old mummy's mask, a federal judge has ruled, saying the U.S. government failed to prove that the Egyptian relic was ever stolen.

This mask was a present from the owner's husband who was an Egyptologist in 1969. It was authenticated by the British Museum ...

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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Collected between 1925 and 1931 by ...