Tutankhamun's Death Mask, Cairo — the most recognizable object to survive from the ancient world, found by Howard Carter in 1922. The mask is solid gold, weighs 24 pounds, and is inlaid with lapis lazuli, carnelian, obsidian, quartz, and turquoise. Tutankhamun was approximately nineteen years old when he died — a minor pharaoh, yet the one whose face the entire world now knows.
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