This file picture taken on October 20, 2009 shows a view of the gold burial mask of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun (reigned between 1342-1325 BC) on display at the Egyptian museum in Egypt's capital Cairo. AFP PHOTO
In this file photo Friederike Seyfried, director of the Egyptian Museum Berlin points to the damage caused by an "oily liquid" leaving visible stains on exhibits in the Egyptian part of the Neues Museum on October 21, 2020 in Berlin. AFP PHOTO
A visitor views artefacts in one of the galleries of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at University College London on July 28, 2022. AFP PHOTO
Egypt's former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass gives an interview with AFP at his office in the capital Cairo on July 17, 2022. AFP PHOTO
This picture taken on May 3, 2022 shows a view of the gilded throne of the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom Pharaoh Tutankhamun (1334-1325 BC), found in 1922 at his tomb in Luxor and on display, at the Egyptian Museum in the capital Cairo, this side showing the cartouche depicting his throne name "Neb-Khepru-Ra" in Egyptian hieroglyphs. AFP PHOTO
This picture taken on January 18, 2022 shows hieroglyphic Egyptian writing on the walls of KV9, the Tomb of Pharaohs Ramses V (1149-1145 BC) and Ramses VI (1145–1137 BC), at the Valley of the Kings on the West Bank of the Nile river off of Egypt's southern city of Luxor. AFP PHOTO
In this file photo the Nefertiti bust is pictured during a press preview of the exhibition "In The Light Of Amarna," to mark the 100 years of the Nefertiti bust discovery, at the Neues Museum (New Museum) in Berlin on December 5, 2012. AFP PHOTO
QURNA: It's one of the 20th century's most iconic photos: British archaeologist Howard Carter inspecting the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun in 1922 as an Egyptian member of his team crouches nearby shrouded in shadow.