Probably not. But that's what Heinrich Schliemann, the maverick archeologist of the nineteenth century, claimed when he discovered this gold mask in a royal tomb at the site of Mycenae. Mycenae was less than a ghost town when Schliemann came to dig there, but no one in modern times had put Homer to the test of history as he did.
When Schliemann emerged from Mycenae with this and other finds, scholars and the world realized that the Iliad might have been more than just a good story. Here was evidence that Mycenae, the home of Greek mythology's King Agamemnon, had been a wealthy center in its day.
Much of modern archeology in Greece, the Aegean, and Asia Minor received a strong shove as a result of Schliemann's bold efforts and even bolder claims. The mask dates to a period even before the date of the events described in the Iliad, but it takes nothing away from the stature of the capital of Mycenean civilization.