In photos: here is the tomb of Tutankhamun after ten years of restoration work

The colors of the tomb of Tutankhamun, the most famous pharaoh of

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, they have regained their brilliance and splendor thanks to a restoration project extended for a decade and presented today to the public.

The restoration team found that the murals were in relatively stable conditions, beyond the peeling and loss of paint caused by inconsistencies in the materials.

The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), based in Los Angeles, United States, announced that it had completed the restoration of Tutankhamun's Tomb, in the Valley of the Kings of Egypt, discovered in 1922 by the British Howard Carter.

The project, a collaboration between the GCI and the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, focused on the conservation of the grave and the creation of a sustainable plan for its future treatment.

The little grave of the so-called "Pharaoh child", one of the icons of the Valley of the Kings, is now in better condition than when it was discovered by Carter. Egyptian archaeologists and the team responsible for the project have been informed by the Spanish agency Efe.

Archaeologist Neville Agnew, one of GCI's officials, explained that the state of the grave was not "as bad" at the beginning of the project because the state paintings was relatively stable.

"They did the most impressive work ever done in a tomb in the world and they saved Tutankhamen, they saved the grave," Efe the famous Egyptologist Zahi Hawas told Efe.

The frescoes were damaged mainly by fungi that caused hundreds of small brown spots dotting the paintings, unique in a tomb of the Valley of the Kings, but the researchers are certain that they no longer represent a danger.

"We think that the brown spots appeared because they were sealed too quickly, there was a lot of moisture and mushrooms appeared.Today, the mushrooms are dead, they have never grown since that Carter opened the grave.We can compare the photographs, "said Agnew.

However, the curators did not want to remove them because they had penetrated into the paint layer, which could damage the pigments.

The conservation project included the installation of a ventilation system and air filtration to dampen the humidity, as well as a new LED lighting system and improvements in the protection and presentation of the site, including the installation of new elevated wooden observation bridges. .