Accessible Art History
Podcast Episode 5: Mask of Tutankhamun
Updated: Jul 1, 2020
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.

Mask of Tutankhamun
(Creative Commons 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

Back of the Mask
(Creative Commons 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

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
(Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)

(Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)

The Mummy Theatrical Poster
(Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons)
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.