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The panels were painted in egg tempera on hardboard.

Wrapped in aluminium foil in hardboard boxes, the bones were transported to Greece’s Demokritos research centre in Athens in the autumn.

The backing can also be plywood or hardboard, a panel material made of wood fibers that began showing up in furniture in the 1920s.

He would tell me to put away my notebooks and force me to hold bits of hardboard covered in Bostik and G-clamps, but my attention always drifted.

The painted hardboard letters - thought to be a reference to the prime minister - were attached to the ancient monument's member on Monday.