Egypt to renovate King Tuttankhamun's gold mask
Xinhua, October 9, 2015 Adjust font size:
The gold mask of King Tutankhamun, one of ancient Egypt's most famous artifacts, will be restored on Saturday, months after the mask's beard was damaged and glued onsite, Egyptian state-run MENA news agency reported Friday.
An Egyptian-German team will repair the mask inside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the agency said.
The mask is displayed in a glass case at Cairo's Egyptian Museum.
In January, media reported that the long shinny blue beard of the king was damaged by the museum's cleaning workers and then was glued back onsite hastily and unprofessionally.
According to the reports, dried glue was visible along the joints between the beard and the mask.
Tutankhamun, who ascended to the throne at the age of nine and died at the age of 19, is the world's best known pharaoh of ancient Egypt.
He won his fame for his tomb, which was discovered by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922 and has remained one of the best preserved.
The young king was a pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt, which ruled from 1332 BC to 1323 BC, during a period known as the New Kingdom in Egypt's history. Endit