Sunday 10 Aug/2025 – 06:00 AM
The Egyptian Museum of Tahrir displays a golden mask for a mummy from the Mir Archaeological site in Assiut Governorate, which is one of the most amazing Egyptian Roman artifacts, and embodies a unique artistic and cultural mix between the two civilizations.
This mask was discovered in the late nineteenth century AD, and its history dates back to the Roman era, the period that witnessed the spread of funerary masks as a major part of the burial rituals, and these masks were often made of the doctrine or plaster cartonge, and are placed on the face of the mummy to represent the deceased in the afterlife and protect it.
The mask shown reflects the craftsmen in that era, as artists merged the ancient Egyptian traditions with the Roman influences in the method of photography and the materials used, which gave it a unique artistic nature.
The mask is currently displayed in the 14th Alawi Hall in the museum, to tell visitors the story of funerary beliefs that are rooted in the Egyptian and Roman societies.
It is noteworthy that the Egyptian Museum is considered one of the oldest archaeological museums in the Middle East with more than 170,000 artifacts and also contains the largest group of ancient Egyptian monuments in the world, and the artifacts displayed in the museum return to the prehistoric era until the Greek and Roman times.
