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🇫🇷💟🇺🇸 Day 10: Paris, Louvre Museum.

💎🇫🇷💎The French Crown Jewels -Apollo Gallery, Louvre. The Royal & Imperial Crowns and jewelry are always a mandatory stop on every visit to Louvre Museum for me. Seen here is the glittering diamond encrusted Coronation Crown of King Louis XV, the only extant diadem of the Kings of France. Along with several of the largest diamonds of the royal collection are the necklaces, crowns and tiaras of Empress Josephine. Marie-Louise & Eugenie. Missing this year from the case was Coronation Crown of the last French Empress Eugenie, perhaps in restoration? 💎🇫🇷💎

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America's Castles: "BILTMORE ESTATE"

📺 America's Castles TV show episode:

George Vanderbilt wanted to build Biltmore Estate as his own French Château in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. To execute his dreams he chose the prominent American architect, Richard Morris Hunt, educated at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Landscape-architect, Frederick Law Olmsted who created NYC's Central Park & San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, was in charge of the 120,000 acres of formal gardens,, pristine forest and woodlands.

The video follows the history of the Gilded Age ~ Beaux-Arts Château from its construction in 1895 through its self sustainability usage today. 🇺🇸🇫🇷

Gold Mask of Tutankhamun

Probably the most famous artifact in the world, the 11 kg death mask of pharaoh Tutankhamun was restored in 2015. The work is more than just the careful repair of a 3300 year old death mask.

In August 2014, cleaning staff in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo mishandled. They accidentally knocked off the beard of Tutankhamun’s death mask. In no time at all, they glued the separated beard back on with an insoluble epoxy resin ( also known as superglue ). This was not a good idea, as it later turned out: “ They didn’t reattach the beard in its original position, the beard tilted slightly to the left side,” explains Christian Eckmann.

"In my culture, death is not the end. it's more of a stepping off point. You reach out with both hands and Bast and Sekhmet, they lead you into a green veld where you can run forever."