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
Lefkaritis Tomb address where the tomb was unearthed, is Vasileos Konstantinou 27. Among the "few objects found", were "Extraordinary gold ornaments", which were moved to Cyprus Museum for conservation. The tomb was discovered in the vicinity of the residence of Dino Lefkaritis (a known businessman in the petroleum industry), hence the name "Lefkaritis Tomb". Lefkaritis Tomb The Lefkaritis Tomb is a hypogeum—a type of tomb—in Larnaca, Cyprus. It was discovered in 1998 in an "un-looted chamber that had been sealed nearly 2800 years ago" in the city-kingdom of Kition. (This tomb was found within the city walls of Kition, as opposed to