Some of the boards and game pieces found in the tomb were made of ivory, and the boards seem designed for the 'game of twenty' and 'senet.' Tutankhamun's tomb had at least four board games in it, according to the book ' Ancient Egyptians at Play: Board Games Across Borders' (Bloomsbury, 2016). (Image credit: Photo by Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images) The game is made of wood veneered with ebony and inlaid with ivory. The gaming board found in Tutankhamun's tomb, from the 14th century B.C. She noted that the third innermost coffin that Tutankhamun was buried in has the same spell written on it. On the back of the death mask is a spell from the Book of the Dead, written in hieroglyphs, which 'guaranteed the mask's ability to function as the face of the deceased,' Marianne Eaton-Krauss, a senior fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt, wrote in her book ' The Unknown Tutankhamun' (Bloomsbury, 2016). 'The eyes are produced from obsidian and quartz,' Hassaan wrote, noting that the mask depicts Tutankhamun with a long beard and a headdress bearing a cobra and a vulture.

Placed on Tut's face, the 21-inch-long (53 centimeters) ornate mask was manufactured mainly from gold inlaid with semiprecious stones and coloured glass paste' and weighs a whopping 22 pounds (10 kilograms), Galal Ali Hassaan, an emeritus professor in the Cairo University Department of Mechanical Design, wrote in a 2016 paper published in the International Journal of Advancement in Engineering & Technology. Tutankhamun's death mask is probably the most famous artifact found in his tomb. (Image credit: Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP via Getty Images) The golden funerary mask of King Tutankhamun on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo after its restoration, on Dec.

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