Mask of Tutankhamun Mask of Tutankhamun The Mask of Tutankhamun is a death mask of the 18th-dynasty ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun (reigned 1332–1323 BC). It was discovered by Howard Carter in 1925 in tomb KV62 and is now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The mask is one of the most well known works of art in the world. According to the Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves, the mask is "not only the quintessential image from Tutankhamun's tomb, it is perhaps the best-known object from ancient Egypt itself." Since 2001, research has suggested that it may originally have been intended for Queen Neferneferuaten; her
Exhibitions of artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun exhibition until May 2009. The tour continued to other U.S. cities. After Dallas the exhibition moved to the de Young Museum in San Francisco, to be followed by the Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York City. This exhibition, featuring completely different artifacts to those in "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs", first ran at the Ethnological Museum in Vienna from March 9 to September 28, 2008 under the title "Tutankhamun and the World of the Pharaohs". It featured a further 140 treasures from the Valley of the Kings including objects from the tomb of King Tut. The