LUXOR (EGYPT) - After almost a decade, a team of international experts on Thursday revealed the results of their painstaking work to preserve the tomb of Egypt's legendary Pharaoh Tutankhamun. "A hundred years of visits, after being sealed for 3,000 years... can you imagine the impact on the grave?" Interrupted during Egypt's 2011 uprising and the political instability that followed, the project later resumed its work and finished up this month. - 'Think of the future' -Researchers had worried the spots were a fungus that might spread and damage the murals of Tutankhamun's life. Famed Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass, who initiated the project, said that the project had "saved the tomb of Tutankhamun".

Source: Bangkok Post January 31, 2019 17:15 UTC