A little unconventional –
in fact, bizarre! Such an important and
well-known artefact surely cannot be treated in such a way. What a mess! It seems the botched repair took place last August - and was not done in the conservation lab. It doesn't make sense.
Apparently, one 'conservators' present
at the repair admitted that glue was ‘inappropriate’, and that the damage was
‘irreversible’. Clearly there is a gap between the face and the beard, with a
layer of yellow glue showing!
According to the BBC:
The blue and gold
braided beard on the burial mask of pharaoh Tutankhamun has been hastily glued
back on after it was damaged, museum employees say.
But conservators at the
Egyptian Museum in Cairo gave differing accounts of the exact circumstances.
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