From Tutankhamen's mummy - gems of Ancient Egyptian art
Page from The Illustrated London News showing the priceless pieces of body jewellery found on the mummy of Tutankhamen, Top shows a gold pectoral, representing the ba-bird that was the king's spirit, inlaid with turquoise, carnelian and lapis lazuli. Bottom picture shows the collar of Nekhebet, a flexible pectoral in the form of a vulture with outspread wings that covered the whole breast of the king's mummy, with the wing-tips on the shoulders. It comprised of 255 separate gold plaques finely inlaid with semi-precious stones
Picture No
13818114
Media ID
46786024
Size
3933px x 5803px
(5.2MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Page photographs by Harry Burton in The Illustrated London News', 26 February 1927, page 353
Date
1927
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