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Recently, employees of the Egyptian Museum (Cairo), doing cleaning ancient artifacts, seriously damaged Tutankhamun’s mask, which, as expected, the famous ruler was buried. It happened like this: when the mask was pulled out from under the glass, a beard the pharaoh suddenly … broke away.
Museum staff received a decree by any means and in repair the valuable exhibit as soon as possible, and without thinking twice, glued a beard using the most primitive … epoxy. Everything would be fine (if I may say so), if there weren’t a drop of glue hit the front of the mask, and if the delinquent employees again did not show imagination. They scraped off the glue with a spatula, scratching and thereby completely ruining the exhibit.
It’s hard to say who is more guilty of this situation – the authorities, ordered to fix and return the mask for review as soon as possible visitors, or museum staff who choose not to give it away restoration and repair with your own hands (isn’t it nonsense?). But the fact remains a fact – the most valuable exhibit of the era of the pharaohs, found the British back in 1922, needs a professional restoration, if not yet completely corrupted and not subject to complete “resuscitation”.
Tutankhamun’s funeral mask for more than 3,000 years, this is one of the most visited and loved by tourists exhibits of the Egyptian Museum. But only a few who admire her know that in in reality, the mask does not belong to Tutankhamun. It was found out when scientists compared her to a virtual model of guise Pharaoh. As it turned out, the facial features on the mask have nothing to do with the ruler of ancient Egypt.
Tutankhamun Pharaohs
