King Tut's Beard Is Back, With Help From a Little Beeswax

CAIRO Reforma 9 weeks golden mask of Tutankhamun was successfully completed, and now again displayed artifact mask Egyptian Museum.The elongated beard cut off in Cairo while the museum staff worked on the show in August 2014,



Try to restore the royal beard epoxy followed. Conservation efforts began in the past in October 2015 the goal is not only to reunite his beard, but a full-scale investigation of the mask using museum archives as a reference did before.Concern beard over here on dates back to 1922, when he was discovered in the tomb Tutankhamen. 'The research showed the mask was cut beard and leaned back in 1946 ', says Christian Eckmann-German expert in charge of the restoration team, the mask in the mask press conference unveiled after restoration. Ekman guardian, specializing in glass and metal, the two main components of the golden mask. It was also to save some Egyptian artifacts, especially copper statue of King Pepi the two I, and gold Horus.The 2014 damage was exaggerated, as previously isolated beard as examination showed earlier, says Frederick Fless, president of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo, one of the German and Egyptian companies that cooperated in the process of reform initiated by the reform process.The projection complete database scanning 3D scanner records the light and the status of the document on the mask, and then the end of the adhesive is applied is not enough. No chemicals are used to remove the resin, instead, the team worked on millimeters with wooden tools after raising the temperature of the mask. This step alone took more than four weeks.The two surprises process has reached, it is the first time that the beard inner tube, which connects it with the mask on, and secondly 1946 beard replantation on using soft solder, 'said Mamdouh Eldamaty Egyptian Minister of methods antiquities.Ancient, used in the restoration process; Team beeswax is used as an adhesive, as this has been a common theme in ancient Egypt, and because it is an organic material creates a lower risk of damage to the metal beard mask.The mask does not look like hair made Tut actual person. The false beard was an important symbol in ancient Egypt, one of the ways these Egyptian kings themselves Osiris, god of the underworld. Unlike real life at a time when the hair on his face is a sign of low social status, wearing a false beard with an inverted end, as Tutankhamun was familiar divinity.The information obtained from these scans the mask and the recovered data will be published in the forthcoming book .During the process of reform, 3D hologram mask is displayed, but since December 17, visitors can enjoy the museum a real mask, and that is allowed to take pictures of him and the entire collection to the museum for one month.2015 great year for fans was Tutankhamun. This summer, National Geographic Grant suggested Nicholas Reeves can hidden cameras in the tomb of Tutankhamen leads to the burial site of Queen Nefertiti. Scan to identify the tomb could actually be two rooms are hidden behind the walls, and is expected to further examination of the space in the coming months.