Face-to-Face with Tutankhamun

Standing in the Egyptian Museum, face-to-face with the funerary mask of King Tut, one can't help but feel awe. The mask itself is encased in glass and protected by a chain which keeps visitors at bay. Visitors press in from all sides to get a look. The overhead light shine down on the mask illuminating its gold features and reflecting its beauty. Two eyes adorned with black mascara beckon the viewer's gaze. Earrings lead one's eyes to themselves and then beyond to an ornate headdress. A vulture and a cobra embellish the headdress, almost as if gaurding the one who wore it, always harkening back to an ancient religion lost to the modern world. A beard pulls one's eyes downward to a collar decorated with stunning blues and reds. And all the while the one seeing this spectacle thinks about how the mask is made with real gold. Surely, it is in this golden image that King Tut has found his immortality.