After a re-examination of the original 1920s discovery, experts now believe even more strongly that King Tut’s golden burial mask wasn’t originally intended for him at all and was likely ...

A re-examination of King Tutankhamun’s burial mask showed it wasn’t originally made for him. The earring holes on the mask provide an obvious clue the mask was intended for a high-status ...

The beard on the burial mask of famed King Tut was glued back on with epoxy, damaging the relic. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 74°F. Thursday, July 10th 2025 ...

News; King Tut's burial mask beard glued back on permanently damaging Egyptian relic. Published: ; Jan. 22, 2015, 3:45 p.m.

Above: King Tut’s burial mask before the incident. (Egyptian Museum in Cairo) Brace yourselves, folks. This story is all kinds of messed up. As The Associated Press is reporting, it appears that ...

The blue and gold braided beard on the burial mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with epoxy, damaging the relic after it was knocked during cleaning, conservators at the ...

Someone Broke King Tut’s Mask ... who works at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo opted for plan A — hasty gluing — and now the over-3,300-year-old gold funeral mask of the pharaoh Tutankhamun, ...

Was the priceless funeral mask of King Tutankhamun damaged and hastily glued back together? That’s the claim made by a museum conservator to Egyptian media. The conservator, who spoke on ...

After a groundbreaking discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922 by archaeologists Howard Carter and George Herbert, the mask was found in the burial chamber. The tomb had been left almost entirely ...

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.

After the beard on King Tut's famous burial mask was accidentally knocked off in 2014, employees hastily reattached it with epoxy, and the 3,300-year-old treasure ended up getting scratched.

CAIRO (AP) — King Tut hasn’t been around for a few thousand years, but his power remains: after a botched repair job of the famed pharaoh’s beard left scratches on his burial mask, Egyptian ...