In July, the Egyptian and Japanese mural painting team has been working on finishing the conservation plan for the mural paintings as well as to plan for the next transportation of the murals which are currently being displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The team began experimenting different methods […]
After the photography of king Tutankhamun’s funerary bed at the wood lab, the documentation team has started the technical imaging of the GEM-JC project’s target mural paintings using visible, UV fluorescence, UV reflected, IR fluorescence and IR reflected. This type of photography helps the team in identifying the pigments as […]
Throughout the past two weeks, the wood and mural lab members at the Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center have been diagnosing the new artifacts that have been recently transported to the museum. The analysis was conducted with the help of Japanese diagnostic analyst and wood experts from the Joint Conservation […]
More analysis and diagnosis using X-ray radiography, electromagnetic radar, high spec digital microscope was carried out by the wall painting team and scientists of analysis and diagnosis team. In order to assess the internal structures by application of modern science and technology, X-ray radiography and digital microscopes were procured by […]
Press Release January 30th, 2018 (Tue) “Transportation of fragile and heavy wall paintings of Old Kingdom” The Grand Egyptian Museum Joint Conservation Project (GEM-JC Project), a joint project run by Grand Egyptian Museum, Ministry of Antiquities and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), had completed the transportation of 2 sets […]
Ms. Masuda, together with Mr. Sayed, a new mural painting team leader of Egyptian side, made a detailed plan for follow artifacts in November, and discussed all the details with Dr. Hussein Kamal, the Project Manager. Ms. Narita and the Egyptian members executed the First Aid in the Egyptian Museum […]
Dr. Matsushima and Dr. Okada conducted with the conservators and scientists more X-ray radiography on the lead objects, especially bed and chariot, to supplement the work which was conducted in EM in March. This time, we were able to confirm more details about the joining part of the wood which […]
Mr. Ahmed Adel and Ms. Amira Abdel Hakim conducted 3D scanning on the lead artifacts of wood and mural paintings in GEM-CC using the portable 3D scanner. We documented Tutankhamun’s bed and chariot after transportation to GEM-CC. The acquired 3D data still needs a lot of processing. 3D scanning was […]
Staying for two weeks, Mr. Ogasawara and Mr. Watanabe, two highly professional photographers, came from Japan equipped with a high resolution camera that can capture up to 80 mega pixels quality photos, with which they carried out the high resolution photographing of the lead artifacts. Such a high-end camera and […]
More analysis and diagnosis using X-ray radiography, electromagnetic radar, high spec digital microscope was carried out by the wall painting team and scientists of analysis and diagnosis team. In order to assess the internal structures by the application of modern science and technology, X-ray radiography and digital microscopes were procured […]
