The sensational discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun - 18th Dynasty revealed the fabulous treasures that accompanied the Egyptian ruler during his lifetime and after his death, as well as the high degree of excellence of the Egyptian goldsmiths. This treasure is, since its discovery in the early evening, in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and is the largest collection of gold objects and jewelry in the world.
The sarcophagus is the mummy was made entirely of gold and this is covered with a huge amount of jewelry. Many other jewelry were found in boxes and boxes in other rooms of the tomb. The crowns, rings, necklaces, pectorals, amulets, pendants, bracelets and earrings are of a quality technical and decorative enormous, scarcely paralleled in the history of jewelry. The ornaments found in the tomb of Tutankhamun are typical and wonderful examples of Egyptian jewelry. The perpetuation of the principles of iconography and color gave the jewelry of ancient Egypt - which has remained a long time without being influenced by other civilizations - a magnificent and solid consistency, enriched by the magical religious beliefs.
One of the most splendid menat made for the pharaoh is what combines the representation of the snake goddess Wadjet with the vulture-goddess Nekhbet. Drawings and sketches were created from tiny gems carved individually and inserted into cells, formed by gold wires attached to a flatbed of gold - a technique known as inlay. Jewelry, as well as all menats, consists of long rows of tiny buds and accounts artistically carved, and the elaborate decoration repeated closures design elements contained in the main part. These collars were shoulder to shoulder, over the chest. Deities and protective Wadjet Nekhbet represent the Lower and Upper Egypt and also adorn the forehead of the mask of Tutankhamun.
A great deal of wings of hawks, vultures, beetles and female deities are also represented on the jewels of the pharaoh, perhaps not only because of the symbolism inherent in these representations, but also because it allowed the artisans wonderful creations in the composition of colors and figures. Several pairs of earrings were found in the tomb of the king, although during the period in which Tutankhamun lived men considered adults did not wear earrings. The earrings are great matches, and were used in pierced ears a diameter wider than it uses today. The holes in the ears of the death mask of Pharaoh are prominent, but these were covered with gold records instead of earrings, since Tutankhamun had reached adulthood before his death.
Like most jewelry found in his tomb, so the bracelets are parts with highly developed and intricate designs, because of the variety of complex reasons. Large beetles, protruding from the surface of the bracelet, were common to most of the ornaments of arm and is a powerful Egyptian symbol of regeneration and rebirth, the beetle also appears in one of five names of Tutankhamun. The tomb of the Pharaoh is the only one to have escaped the tomb robbers who have appeared over the centuries in Egypt. The treasures that the tomb contains attest to the immense wealth of the courts of the ancient pharaohs and are silent witnesses of how much was lost in the art and Egyptian jewelry.