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articles/Tuttut Cairo museum relocates head of restoration after botched Tutankhamun repair — theartnewspaper.com

The head of restoration at the state-run Egyptian Museum in Cairo has been transferred to another museum in the wake of the “botched” repair of the 3,000-year-old golden funerary mask of Tutankhamun—one of Egypt’s most prized artefacts. Saeed Abdel Hamid, the head of restoration at the Coptic Museum, has been tapped as the interim replacement for Ilham Abdel Rahman, who was moved to the Royal Coaches Museum in Bulaq, reports Egypt Independent.

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