Hathor: The Golden Guardian of Tutankhamun’s Afterlife Inside the newly opened Tutankhamun Gallery at the Grand Egyptian Museum stands one of the most powerful symbols of ancient Egyptian belief — a golden head of a cow, crafted with extraordinary precision more than 3,000 years ago. This is not just an artistic object. This is Hathor, the Goddess of the West, the divine protector who — according to ancient Egyptian belief — welcomed the dead into the world beyond. This remarkable artifact was o