And then there are the real pyramids – visible through gigantic windows. Upright and sometimes inverted, huge triangular designs built into the museum’s monumental structures and mosaic surfaces. Wandering through the museum, visitors may spot a familiar recurring motif. Grand Museum, grand view KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images While ancient Egyptians crafted great monuments to their dead, wonders of granite and limestone including the Pyramids at Giza, modern Egyptians have been building a new home for Tutankhamun and his ancestors just over a mile away. All the children ask about one thing, Tutankhamun.” “I made a Skype last week to a school in the States. “You know, if you ask a child from the age of eight and you tell him Egypt, and he will tell you King Tut,” Zahi Hawass, an Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister, tells CNN. Once entombed in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, the mask has toured the world, entrancing audiences with its aura of opulence and millenia-old regal mystery. It’s probably the most recognizable artifact we have from antiquity. His death mask was sublimely, breathtakingly crafted over 3,300 years ago from 24 pounds of beaten gold, with eyeliner of lapis lazuli and eyes of quartz and obsidian. For almost a century, King Tutankhamun has been the poster boy for Ancient Egypt.
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