Podcast Episode 5: Mask of Tutankhamun

For the last episode of season five, we examined one of the most famous pieces in history: The Mask of Tutankhamun. To listen to the episode, click here.

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Mask of Tutankhamun

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Back of the Mask

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Tutankhamun Cartouches (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun (Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Interior of the Tomb (Creative Commons 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

Howard Carter with the Sarcophagus

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The Mummy Theatrical Poster

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Sources

Gardner’s Art through the Ages, Volume 12

Fred S. Kleiner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of_Tutankhamun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avqafc6fZwc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-0LpHKnZ8

Trustees of the British Museum (1972). Treasures of Tutankhamun. Thames & Hudson. pp. 154–156.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Younger_Lady

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankhesenamun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV62

Gilbert, Katherine Stoddert; Holt, Joan K.; Hudson, Sara, eds. (1976). Treasures of Tutankhamun. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0-87099-156-6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Carter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egypt_in_the_Western_imagination#19th_century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_pharaohs

Rupert Furneaux, The World's Strangest Mysteries, (New York: Ace Books, 1961), p. 72-74.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/king-tut-died-from-broken-leg--not-murder--scientists-conclude/#close