Mask of Agamemnon

The Mask of Agamemnon: Mycenae’s Golden Face

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The Mask of Agamemnon: Mycenae's Golden Face

The Mask of Agamemnon is a funerary mask of beaten gold and the most famous single object ever recovered from Mycenae. It shows a bearded man’s face with closed eyes, a straight nose and finely worked ears, all hammered from one sheet of gold. Heinrich Schliemann lifted it from a shaft grave in the citadel … Read more

National Archaeological Museum Athens

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National Archaeological Museum

Athens’s National Archaeological Museum is the largest in Greece and one of the world’s finest, home to the gold Mask of Agamemnon, the astonishing Antikythera Mechanism, the Artemision Bronze and the Akrotiri frescoes. Explore its treasures with skip-the-line tickets and guided tours from My Greece Tours for a richer, queue-free visit. The National Archaeological Museum … Read more