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If you go to the Cairo Museum and you look at the artefacts, go to the Golden Mask.
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The golden mask is something that, I believe, it will never be repeated.
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No artist in the world will be able to do this beauty.
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Look at the eyes, at the face, it is a masterpiece of art, in my opinion.
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The second, go to the coffins. You know, they found inside the tomb seven coffins.
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Howard Carter took all of them and he left one inside the tomb.
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Each coffin can give you an amazing the beauty of art.
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Not only anything in the tomb is an exact copy of the face of King Tut.
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Some of what you discover in the tomb, it shows the idealistic life
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that he wants to be, it is not really the realistic art.
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And therefore you'll find that some of the statues are different from each other.
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I myself, when I enter Cairo Museum, I go to this chair.
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And I look at it, the Golden Throne.
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The golden throne is another masterpiece.
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The most amazing thing that they show at the statue the love between the king and the queen.
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They're wearing one sandal only, they show that they're sharing everything.
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The love was between them.
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And this why, when King Tut died,
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Queen Ankhesenamun was so upset she put a flower,
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it was discovered on his mummy.
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The jewellery is amazing, especially what has been found inside his body,
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over 104 pieces: beautiful rings, collars with beads, the crown.
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My best, favourite piece is really that pectoral with winged scarab.
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Look why – this is amazing.
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The stones here, you have gold and silver and glass and semi-precious stones
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– all these are in one piece of jewelery.
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Look at this scarab in the middle and holding the udjat – eye.
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And this is a symbol of Osiris.
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The two cobras protecting the king in between.
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And down – look at the lotus flower.
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This is, in my opinion, a masterpiece.
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How? It has a religious idea.
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Art in Ancient Egypt was for the sake of religion.