King Tut’s Funeral Mask
In 2015, one of King Tutankhamen’s funeral masks suffered some serious damage at the Egyptian Museum after its beard started to fall off. So, the museum reached out to someone who could begin the restoration process, but then something went terribly wrong.
“Unfortunately he used a very irreversible material they said of the would-be fixer,” claimed the museum’s curator in an interview with the Associated Press. “Epoxy has a very high property for attaching, and is used on metal or stone—but I think it wasn’t suitable for an outstanding object like Tutankhamen’s golden mask.”