{"id":292828,"date":"2025-06-14T13:35:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T13:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/aerospace\/tutankhamuns-iconic-gold-death-mask-is-getting-a-new-home-near-the-pyramids-of-giza\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T13:35:56","slug":"tutankhamuns-iconic-gold-death-mask-is-getting-a-new-home-near-the-pyramids-of-giza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=292828","title":{"rendered":"Tutankhamun’s Iconic Gold Death Mask Is Getting a New Home Near the Pyramids of Giza"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Soon, the elaborately decorated artifact will be transferred to the brand new Grand Egyptian Museum, joining more than 5,000 other items from the boy king\u2019s tomb<\/h2>\n
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Tutankhamun’s gold funerary mask has been on display at the Egyptian Museum for nearly a century.
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For nearly a century, visitors have flocked to the Egyptian Museum on Cairo\u2019s Tahrir Square to admire Tutankhamun\u2019s funerary mask, the intricately decorated artifact designed to cover the mummified pharaoh\u2019s face.<\/p>\n

Starting this summer, they\u2019ll be able to see the mask in its new home, the $1 billion<\/a> Grand Egyptian Museum located in nearby Giza. Officials will soon transfer the mask to the massive new venue, where it will join more than 5,000 artifacts from the boy king\u2019s tomb.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly 26 objects from the Tutankhamun collection, including the golden mask and two coffins, remain here [at the Egyptian Museum] in Tahrir,\u201d says Ali Abdel Halim, director of the Egyptian Museum, to the Agence France-Presse<\/a> (AFP). \u201cAll are set to be moved soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Halim didn\u2019t say when the death mask will be transferred, but the new Grand Egyptian Museum is scheduled to fully open to the public in early July after years of delays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some portions of the Grand Egyptian Museum have been open since November 2023<\/a>, with an additional 12 exhibit halls opening last October<\/a>. All told, the museum complex spans more than 5 million square feet<\/a> and houses more than 100,000 artifacts, which makes it the largest museum in the world focused on a single civilization.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spent all this money to build the greatest museum in the world,\u201d said Zahi Hawass, an Egyptologist who has twice served as Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minister, to NBC News<\/a>\u2019 Keir Simmons, Charlene Gubash and Mithil Aggarwal in October. \u201cYou will see the objects for the first time in an incredible way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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