On the 5th of July, the Japanese Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Mr. Hiroyuki Yoshiie visited GEM-CC , GEM site and Pyramids area with the Japanese Ambassador in Egypt Mr. Takehiro KAGAWA and JICA Egypt office members. During his visit, Mr. HIROYUKI took a tour in […]
Starting from this week, March 27, The Textile team of the Grand Egyptian Museum has started documenting, discussing and making the new conservation work plan for the target artifacts with Dr. Ishii Mie. Ms. Eman, Mr. Nagm. Dr. Ishii managed to set a new schedule for conservation work with the […]
Starting from 23th March, the Egyptian and the Japanese experts have started working on Tutankhamun’s chariot and bed which are displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, preparing for their transportation to the Grand Egyptian museum. Dr. Medhat and Dr. Okada worked together with the Documentation team and Wood Conservation […]
GEM-JC Project will provide 3 high-value instruments throughout the duration of the project, including a X-ray radiography device, a Digital Stereo Microscope and a 3D portable scanner, all of which are important analysis instruments that will be of great help in the documentation and analysis processes. Despite a slight delay […]
Starting from the 10th of March, 2017, the Egyptian and Japanese experts have started working together in the Fumigation labs. This work continued for one week, checking the fumigation work process and the materials required for the upcoming fumigation work that is planned to be done after the transportation of the […]
One of the main objectives of our project is formulating the transportation plan of the limestone relief of King Senefru’s Valley Temple from the Bent Pyramid in Dahshur, which is currently being stored at the Giza storage and is set to be displayed in GEM. On 9th of February, 2017, the team went to inspect […]
Dr. Kumi Masuda from the mural paintings Japanese team arrived on the 11th of February, and started meetings with the Egyptian team to make a detailed condition check in order to finalize the conservation plan. They continued the work in EM(the Egyptian Museum, Tahrir), opening showcases of the target artifacts […]
The Japanese experts (Dr. Mie Ishii and Midori Yokoyama) from the textile team has arrived on 4th of February, 2017. The team’s mission is to confirm the current condition and to prepare for documentation, also to finalize the conservation team and the conservation policy. Many meetings were held to confirm the transportation […]
On the 14th of December, 2016, the first Joint Coordination Committee was held to discuss important issues of the project including the project policies, plan and implementation structure. JCC (Joint Coordination Committee) is a committee formed from members of both Project directors of Egyptian and Japanese side and other related experts. […]
In December 2016, the Egyptian textile team was ready to welcome the Japanese team to start working right away on confirming the target artifacts. The team started updating the database with the recent data. Also at the same time they conducted preliminary condition check to identify damages and their degrees. Since the Egyptians and […]
