The 6,000-Year-Old Mask That No One Can Explain 👁️ Inside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo sits one of the strangest and most unsettling artifacts ever discovered — a clay funerary mask known as the Hierakonpolis Mask. This mysterious face is over 6,000 years old, created long before the first Pharaohs, before the pyramids, even before writing existed. Its sharp features — the narrow chin, slanted eyes, and faint smile — don’t resemble any known Egyptian style. It looks ancient… but not entirely hu