The year was 1922. The place: Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings. Howard Carter, the archaeologist, and his patron, Lord Carnarvon, assembled with invited dignitaries for the opening of the sealed door to the burial chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
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☀️ Gold, net weight of 10 kilos, valued at $10 million.. When the mask was sent to be shown in London for the first time in 1975, it was insured at the time for a value of $55 million, which is the largest value of an insurance operation in history.
The mask was traveled under strict security on board one of the British Royal Air Force planes and was placed in a special armored box so that even if the plane fell, the mask would remain intact "inside the box equipped with buoyancy equipment and transmitting a signal about its location by satellite.
