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- Egypt unveils the restored “Tondo of the Two Brothers” at Cairo’s Egyptian Museum.
- Tourism and Antiquities Minister Sherif Fathy called the work a model of cooperation.
- Italian specialists worked with Egyptian conservators for three weeks on the panel.
- Restorers recovered the right brother’s features using a wax-pigment technique on the termite-damaged wood.
- Egypt will loan Fayoum portraits to a Rome show displaying over 110 objects from November to May 2027.