Mask of Agamemnon: A gold death mask once thought to be evidence of the

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A gold death mask that was at first believed to come from the legendary king Agamemnon. (Image credit: Photo 12 through Getty Images) 19659002 Call: 19459056 Mask of Agamemnon What it is: A gold funerary mask of a guy’s face 19659005 Where it is from: 19459056 Mycenae, a historical site in southern Greece 19659006 When it was made: 19459056 Circa 1500 B.C. Related: 19659008 Phaistos Disk: 3,000-year-old engravings from Crete that have actually never ever been understood 19659009 What it informs us about the past: This gold death mask was discovered by German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 throughout excavations of a Bronze Age burial place at the Mycenae historical site in southern Greece. 19459057 19659011 Get the world’s most remarkable discoveries provided directly to your inbox. Schliemann thought he had actually discovered the body of the legendary king Agamemnon, who led the 19459058 Achaean (Greek) siege of Troy in Homer’s 19459026 Odyssey 19459027 Mask of Agamemnon 19459028 Iliad Iliad, 19659013 Late Bronze Age collapse, while the Trojan War might have taken place 19459058 centuries later on 19659014 19459054 Tom Metcalfe is a self-employed reporter and routine Live Science factor who is based in London in the United Kingdom. Tom composes primarily about science, area, archaeology, the Earth and the oceans. He has actually likewise composed for the BBC, NBC News, National Geographic, Scientific American, Air & & Space, and lots of others. 19659015 The majority of Popular 19659017 Learn more 19459068

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