An overlooked feature on King Tutankhamun's death mask has revealed how the young ruler was buried. King Tut ruled during Egypt's 18th Dynasty, from 1332 BC to 1323 BC before he died at 19.

The death mask was found in 1925 by the Egyptologist Howard Carter during his excavations of Tutankhamun’s tomb which his team rediscovered in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings near the city of ...

Tutankhamun's mask has been housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo since 1934, 12 years after British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the pharaoh’s tomb. However, the 123-year-old Beaux ...