They were then molded to the heads of the dead and facsimiles of features were painted on them.В Some of the mummy masks used вЂњcartonnageвЂќ to mold the features.

To make a mummy mask for an ordinary person like the mask of the mummy that contained the Mark fragment, strips of linen and pieces of discarded papyrus mixed with plaster were used to form paper-mache masks. Most ancient Egyptians could not afford expensive gold masks like King Tut could. There are hundreds of funerary masks of ordinary people and they are not museum-quality. In an attempt to remove the dried epoxy, they scratched the mask.

In an attempt to reattach it, the epoxy leaked into the face of the mask and dried. In October, 2015 while King TutвЂ™s mask in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo was being cleaned, they broke off his beard. Below is aВ 4 minute video account, shot in the 1920вЂ™s, of CarterвЂ™s discovery of King TutвЂ™s tomb. It made international news and was immediately identified as one of the greatest archeological finds ever. His tomb in the Valley of the Kings was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922. of solid gold mummy mask of the young King Tutankhamen (ruled Egypt c. How did a fragment of MarkвЂ™s Gospel end up in a mummy mask? Most have seen the 24 lbs. Philologists and epigraphists are anxiously waiting to examine this purportedly important ancient fragment. 68.В The Mark text and other texts in the mummy mask were scheduled to be published in 2015. 80-90 AD date is eventually confirmed, would antedate Papyrus 52 and would mean it was written or copied before MarkвЂ™s martyrdom in Egypt in c. 120-125 AD, only about 30 years after John wrote his Gospel. 1920 and has had many decades of peer review and study in order to confirm its date of c. That fragment of a codex (ancient book made of pages of papyrus, parchment or velum) came from Egypt in c. Until the recent discovery of the Mark fragment, the oldest known fragment of a New Testament book was the Rylands Library Papyrus P52 containing on both sides parts of 7 lines in Greek from the Gospel of John (18:31-33 and 18:37-38). 80-90 AD is correct, it would be the oldest piece of papyrus containing a part of the New Testament yet discovered. An article appeared on a science news website,, in mid-January 2015-вЂќ Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel.вЂќ If the information that the fragment from MarkвЂ™s Gospel dates from c.

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