Sunday, January 25, 2015

‘Amid the pandemonium, someone had the idea to hastily glue that sucker back on’

Tourists were waiting, the beard was dangling … Grab some glue!

“King Tut’s 3,300-year-old funeral mask, called ‘the most famous archaeological relic in the world,’ has been permanently damaged, Cairo’s Egyptian Museum announced this week. It’s still not entirely clear what happened. But it seems Tut’s drooping beard was somehow knocked off at some point last year. And then everything went from bad to worse.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/01/23/king-tuts-mask-worlds-most-famous-archaeological-relic-has-been-irreversably-damaged/?tid=sm_fb

Link at www.gatesofvienna.net

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