5 Ancient Masks That Shouldn't Exist

In 1987, a British army officer sweeps a field in northern Germany with a metal detector and finds a cache of Roman coins. It triggers years of excavation. But one of the things archaeologists pull from the ground isn't supposed to exist. Not here. Why was a Roman soldier wearing a silver face into battle?

For thousands of years, humans have been putting faces on top of faces. Masks carved from stone. Masks molded onto the dead. Masks cast in metals that shouldn't exist. Some were worn in rituals. Some in battle. Some were hidden underground and never meant to be found. These are masks no one has fully explained...
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