Tutankhamun’s mask and tomb off view to tourists from October for cleaning
Conservators to sweep the floors of the boy pharaoh’s burial chamber and remove epoxy applied to golden mask’s loose beard.
From October, Tutankhamun’s golden mask will be off display and his tomb closed to tourists.
The boy king’s famous mask is being taken off display at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, to enable conservators to remove epoxy resin, applied to the mask in August 2014 as a way of
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re-securing its loose beard. Although the beard was not broken, as was widely reported at the time, and the epoxy has not discoloured or harmed the mask, it is not the most suitable material for the job, and too much was applied, leaving dried traces visible to viewers.
A joint German-Egyptian team has since studied the mask, and has made suggestions on how to remove the epoxy and secure the beard in place without causing any damage. It is not yet known when the mask will be returned to display. “So far, there is no set deadline for the restoration so as to guarantee efficient conservation work,” Mamdouh Eldamaty, Egypt’s head of antiquities, told Egyptian news source Ahram Online.
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