Fixing Tutankhamun's beard: 'unfortunately they used epoxy'

Restorers give progress report as they attempt to rectify damage done when beard was broken by worker, then bodged back together with everyday glue

Restorers have put their work on the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun on display in Cairo, over a year after the beard was accidentally knocked off and hastily glued back on with epoxy.

A German-Egyptian team of experts showed off the mask in a laboratory in the Egyptian Museum, detailing plans for how the epoxy will be scraped off and the beard carefully removed before being reattached by a method to be determined by a joint scientific committee.