King Tut’s golden mask is one of the most famous treasures in the world, but it turns out it was hiding a secret all along! Experts recently discovered that the mask wasn’t originally made for ...

King Tut’s iconic mask is 21 inches tall, inlaid with precious stones, and features a 5.5-pound golden beard as part of the larger 22.5-pound gold mask.

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 ...

This July 1996 photo shows the mask of King Tutankhamun at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. On Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2014, conservators at the museum say the blue and gold braided beard on the artifact ...

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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.

A man glues the beard part of King Tutankhamun’s mask back on at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in August 2014. Another museum conservator, who was present at the time of the repair, said that ...

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.

CAIRO — Epoxy used to glue a blue and gold braided beard back on to the burial mask of Egypt’s famed King Tutankhamun can be removed and the mask properly restored, a German expert summoned to ...

Jae Maye takes a photo of her daughter Rachel Maye, 8, in front of an image of King Tut’s funerary mask. —Photos by Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/The Washington Post ...