CAIRO — The restoration of King Tutankhamun’s golden mask will begin Saturday, more than a year after the beard was accidentally broken off and hastily glued back with epoxy, Egypt’s state-run news agency said Friday.
A German-Egyptian team will remove the mask from its display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and repair it in another area of the museum, MENA reported.
The 3,300-year-old burial pharaonic mask was discovered in Tutankhamun’s tomb along with other artifacts by British archaeologists in 1922, sparking worldwide interest in archaeology and ancient Egypt.