Haunting faces float behind her: a quartzite head of a king, as sleek as a cat, and a gilded mummy mask with quizzical, staring eyes.

This is his mummy mask.

Minerals were ground on stone pallets, shown along with cosmetic vessels, combs, scarab and seal amulets and a blue glass funerary ring, the overall display dominated by a mummy mask.

The show follows this vaguely chronological order, via mummy masks and coffins, before focusing on the Book of the Dead itself.

In another gallery the mummy masks and a woman's coffin of the ramesside era were found.

A collection of Egyptian mummy masks.

The mummy was adorned with a mummy mask.

FILM FESTIVAL Seen any good Egyptian mummy masks lately, or taken a few jitterbug steps on the dance floor?

These include an Egyptian mummy mask, a contemporary Australian aboriginal painting, a Nigerian 'Kalibari' screen, and Dali's 'Crucifixion'.

The mummy mask, originally an Egyptian concept, grew more and more Graeco-Roman in style, Egyptian motifs became ever rarer.