Death Mask Of Tutankhamun

The death facade of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun is done of bullion inlaid with colored glassand semiprecious stone. The facade comes from a innermost ma case in a pharaohstomb, as well as stands 54 cm (21 in) high. The emblems upon a front (vulture as well as cobra) andon a shoulders (falcon heads) were black of a Two Lands of Upper as well as Lower Egyptand of boundless authority. The vulture Nekhbet as well as a cobra Wadjet protected a pharaoh.








COFFINS

Tutankhamun's mummified body was found within three coffins or sarcophagi, each one
within a next. The largest is still in a strange burial ground in a Valley of a Kings along with
his mummy, though a alternative two are here. This is a middle coffin, done of wood covered
with gold, semiprecious stones, glass as well as obsidian.
The middle coffin is done of solid bullion as well as weighs 110 kilograms (which during 2004 prices
makes a bullion by itself worth over one as well as a half million US dollars).

Inner Coffin
Middle Coffin
Middle Coffin
The Egyptian Vulture
The Egyptian vulture is a tool-using bird. Egyptian vultures are specialists in egg-eating.
They are between a only well known birds in a universe to make use of stones as tools. They will
repeatedly set upon during an abandoned ostrich egg with stones, afterwards make use of their bill to enlarge
the hole as well as penetrate membrane. Then it feasts upon a oozing interior of a egg. In ancient
Egypt a vulture is considered to be nearer to God who is believed to reside above a sky.


The Egyptian Cobra
The ancient Egyptians worshipped a cobra as well as used it as a symbol upon a crown of the
pharaohs. It is used as a protecting symbol, a Egyptians believed that a cobra would spit
fire during any approaching enemies. It is additionally called asp.