The beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and employees tried to reattach it with glue. 'It is done,' Christian Eckmann, a German specialist in restoration work on antiquities in glass and metal, told reporters at a press conference. The restored mask - now back in its display case at the museum - was shown to journalists after more than two months of work by a team of German experts.
Egypt put the restored gold mask of Tutankhamun back on display on Wednesday after German experts removed glue applied in a botched repair when the priceless artefact's beard fell off.
