Restoration of the golden burial mask of the Egyptian king Tutankhamun is under way in Cairo, more than a year after the beard was accidentally knocked off and hastily glued back with epoxy.
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Christian Eckmann, leading a German-Egyptian team, says the length of the project will depend on how long it takes to reattach the beard via a method to be determined by a scientific committee.
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