{"id":13846,"date":"2016-01-25T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=13846"},"modified":"2016-01-25T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:14:09","slug":"two-messages-from-the-aftermath-of-a-botched-restoration-one-positive-and-one-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/01\/25\/two-messages-from-the-aftermath-of-a-botched-restoration-one-positive-and-one-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Two messages from the aftermath of a botched restoration; one positive and one not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the January 25, 2016 issue of The New York Times (\u201cEgyptian Officials Face Tribunal for Damaging Mask\u201d, by Declan Walsh), eight Egyptian museum officials have been suspended from their jobs and face permanent dismissal \u00a0as well as fines \u00a0after having been charged with negligence and violation of scientific and professional rules in connection with the 2011 repair of the burial mask of King Tutankhamen. That repair, made with epoxy, and attempts to remove the epoxy \u00a0\u00a0left the artifact with permanent damage. \u00a0Eventually, the epoxy was removed and the mask repaired correctly \u00a0by German conservators. \u00a0\u00a0One positive message we get from this sad occurrence is that conservation is now taken seriously in Egypt. \u00a0\u00a0Another message\u2014not at all positive\u2014is that Egypt lacks trained conservators who are able to care for its cultural heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the January 25, 2016 issue of The New York Times (\u201cEgyptian Officials Face Tribunal for Damaging Mask\u201d, by Declan Walsh), eight Egyptian museum officials have been suspended from their jobs and face permanent dismissal \u00a0as well as fines \u00a0after having been charged with negligence and violation of scientific and professional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2016\/01\/25\/two-messages-from-the-aftermath-of-a-botched-restoration-one-positive-and-one-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two messages from the aftermath of a botched restoration; one positive and one not&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}