Illustrative model — an approximation, not a scan of the original object.
c. 1327 BCE
Gold Mask of Tutankhamun
Eighteenth Dynasty, at the king’s burial.
- Material
- Gold inlaid with coloured glass and semiprecious stones
- Findspot
- Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings
- Discovery
- Found by Howard Carter on the king’s mummy inside the innermost gold coffin, after the tomb’s discovery in 1922.
- Held by
- Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza
- Inventory number
- JE 60672 (Carter no. 256a)
A gold mask placed over the face of the king’s mummy, with the nemes headcloth topped by the vulture and cobra, emblems of Upper and Lower Egypt.
It was displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir from the 1930s, then moved to the Grand Egyptian Museum, which opened in November 2025.
Certainty: Established
The mask’s inventory number is JE 60672, and its number in Carter’s record is 256a.
- Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza “Funerary mask of Tutankhamun, JE 60672 (Carter no. 256a)”
- Nicholas Reeves (1990) “The Complete Tutankhamun” Thames & Hudson, London
Certainty: Established
The Grand Egyptian Museum, opened in November 2025, displays Tutankhamun’s complete funerary collection together for the first time.
- Euronews / Associated Press “The $1 billion Grand Egyptian Museum opens to the public (5 November 2025)” euronews.com