Egypt
Here is an overview of excavations of the Dier Al Banat cemetery who's finds include mummies some with golden masks.
There is a good picture of one of the masks.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/881/eg6.htm
- Graeco-roman Mummies Found In The Fayoum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Nevine El-Aref reports about the Graeco-Roman necropolis at Deir Al-Banat in the Faiyum Depression (to the southwest of Cairo). This year the mission located and studied 154 rectangular shaped tombs with rounded corners...
- Mummy In The Golden Mask
Russian archaeologists have found mummies wearing golden masks in Egypt's Fayum. http://en.rian.ru/science/20090408/120990444.html...
- 2008 In Brief
Among the finds of this past year was an old kingdom pyramid belonging to queen Sesheshet of dynasty six this find was moderately interesting as were the two empty tombs found near the causeway of king Unas. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/923/he1.htm...
- It's The Assumption
It's the assumption that the mask found by Mr. Ghoneim and referred to by him as Kanefernefer and the mask in the St. Louis art museum are one and the same. Probable yes but I would like to point out that mummy masks are part of an artistic tradition...
- Rameses Head
Here's a good picture of that big old ugly head of Rameses II found at Tel Basta. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/916/fr3.htm...
Egypt
Ptolemaic Mummies
Here is an overview of excavations of the Dier Al Banat cemetery who's finds include mummies some with golden masks.
There is a good picture of one of the masks.
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/881/eg6.htm
- Graeco-roman Mummies Found In The Fayoum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Nevine El-Aref reports about the Graeco-Roman necropolis at Deir Al-Banat in the Faiyum Depression (to the southwest of Cairo). This year the mission located and studied 154 rectangular shaped tombs with rounded corners...
- Mummy In The Golden Mask
Russian archaeologists have found mummies wearing golden masks in Egypt's Fayum. http://en.rian.ru/science/20090408/120990444.html...
- 2008 In Brief
Among the finds of this past year was an old kingdom pyramid belonging to queen Sesheshet of dynasty six this find was moderately interesting as were the two empty tombs found near the causeway of king Unas. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/923/he1.htm...
- It's The Assumption
It's the assumption that the mask found by Mr. Ghoneim and referred to by him as Kanefernefer and the mask in the St. Louis art museum are one and the same. Probable yes but I would like to point out that mummy masks are part of an artistic tradition...
- Rameses Head
Here's a good picture of that big old ugly head of Rameses II found at Tel Basta. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/916/fr3.htm...