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Omaha Steve

(99,691 posts) Fri Oct 9, 2015, 09:21 AM Oct 2015

Egypt to restore King Tut mask after botched epoxy job

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Source: AP

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's state-run news agency says the restoration of King Tutankhamun's world-famous golden mask will begin Saturday, over a year after the beard was accidentally broken off and hastily glued back with epoxy.

The news agency says Friday a German-Egyptian team will repair the mask at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

The beard became detached during work on the relic's lighting in August 2014 and then was hastily reattached with epoxy.

In a January press conference by Egypt's antiquities ministry, days after the botched reattachment came to light, restoration specialist Christian Eckmann said the epoxy could be removed and the mask properly restored.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bf7bc0a5693b4265afae4b5d6e8f970c/egypt-restore-king-tut-mask-after-botched-epoxy-job

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Egypt to restore King Tut mask after botched epoxy job (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2015 OP

When I was there in Nov. 2012, we were in the room where the mask is supposed to be in sinkingfeeling Oct 2015 #1

"toss it to the mob" seems to be SOP: it's also pretty damaging to artifact repatriation MisterP Oct 2015 #2

sinkingfeeling

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1. When I was there in Nov. 2012, we were in the room where the mask is supposed to be in

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 10:26 AM

Oct 2015

a glass, air-controlled case. Suddenly, people began to exclaim and we saw the mask being carried through the crowd! I could have reached out and touched the multi-million dollar mask of Tut! The Cairo Museum is wonderful in some ways, but how they care for the objects is unusual!

MisterP

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2. "toss it to the mob" seems to be SOP: it's also pretty damaging to artifact repatriation