See the gallery. The mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamen returned to his cabinet Wednesday in the Egyptian Museum after eight weeks of restoration in which a defective repair that took place after the fall off her amended knob for a few works in the museum in 2014.
Visitors to the most important museum in Cairo will again enjoy the stunning relic of the “boy king” from tomorrow at 09.00 local time (07.00 GMT).
In a press conference held today at the museum, co-director of the repairs on the mask , German scientist Christian Eckmann said “the long process of restoration.”
After moving the mask in a mold made expressly for the occasion, work began on October 10 in the chamber 55 of the museum, where the resin “epoxy” used wrongly to stick knob was removed in 2014.
To Eckmann, the most difficult and “challenging” part of the restoration was the knob off the rest of the mask , for which no chemical was used.
“We had to use tools of wood, warm them slightly for the adhesive to melt and that is what allowed us to remove all the glue” , explained Eckmann told Efe.
Once separated knob face, experts found a small tube, which placed back correctly.
then introduced into the tube and knob stuck using “natural beeswax, which is easy to remove if necessary,” said Eckmann.
For his part, Egyptian Minister of Antiquities, the Damati Mamdouh said in the press conference work Egyptian-German team that took care of these works have been completed “successfully.”
“The new restoration of the knob is best held in the forties and study will be published in a book “, said the government official.
Meanwhile, the head of the conservation department of the Egyptian Museum, Moamen Uthman, told Efe that the return of the mask restored to his cabinet can be an “attractive for tourism (in Egypt) after the controversy last year,” referring to the mistaken restoration of 2014.
In addition, he added that the Egyptian-German team has shown that the situation of the mask prior to this restoration was “not so bad”, although he admitted the “mistake” with the use of the resin “epoxy”.
The team, headed by Al Damati, was composed of three -Conservatives experts, scientists and egiptólogos- of each country as well as fourteen aides Egyptian nationality.
mask of gold, which has embedded semiprecious stones, was damaged during construction work carried out in 2014 to change the lighting of the Egyptian Museum in circumstances that have not yet They have been clarified and that sparked much controversy.
This was the fourth time the mask funeral of Tutankhamun has been removed from its case since it was discovered by British Egyptologist Howard Carter in 1922.
After that came to light incident from 2014, Germany offered its assistance to Egypt to restore the valuable mask and last September gave 50,000 euros ($ 56,330) on the Egyptian authorities to do so.
The “child king” is also currently involved in a mystery related to a possible empty chamber adjacent to his tomb in the southern city of Luxor.
Currently you are carrying out analysis scans to determine if what is there is effectively an empty chamber and whether, as British archaeologist Nicholas Reeves is buried there stepmother of Tutankhamen, Queen Nefertiti.
Other possibilities shuffled by the Minister of Antiquities suggest that might be buried there Queen Meritatón (daughter and wife of Akhenaten, Tutankhamun’s father) or even the mother of Tutankhamun, Kiya, -a relationship on which not all Egyptologists agree -.
Tutankhamun reigned for a short period of the first half of 1300 century BC and most important of its mandate was the return of the influence and power to the priests of Amun after the monotheist Akhenaton experience. EFE
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