V clav Marhoul's "The Painted Bird" begins with utter bleakness but over the course of its 169-minute running time, keeps finding lower depths of misery. When it premiered last fall at the Venice Film ...

A team of researchers recently investigated the paint coating a 1,000-year-old gold mask taken from an elite tomb of a community in western Peru that is today known as the Sicán. They were intrigued ...

A 1,000-year-old mask discovered on the head of an ancient skeleton was painted using human blood, according to a new study. Archaeologists with the Sicán Archaeological Project unearthed the gold ...

In the early 1990s, a tomb about 1000 years ago was excavated in Peru, South America, and a skull with a golden mask was found inside. This golden mask was painted red and the raw material remained ...

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Ever since a 1,000-year-old gold mask was excavated from a tomb in Peru 30 years ago, archaeologists have puzzled over the surprising longevity of the red paint on its surface. According to a recent ...

THIS FUNERAL mask, photographed by Yoshii Yutaka of the Sicán Archaeological Project, in Peru, was discovered 30 years ago, 800km to the north of Lima. The Sicán were a group who flourished around 500 ...