The experts have successfully finished the meticulous conservation process for most of the artifacts, particularly the lead target artifacts, which were planned to be finished first. The next step for the artifacts whose conservation is done is to be photographed for documentation to keep a high-quality record that will be […]
The Egyptian textile team received the mount cases, which have been manufactured in Japan. after the arrival of the Japanese team to Cairo the team started checking the mount cases carefully for even the tiniest defect, which would affect the appearance of the textile object in the exhibition. Furthermore, the […]
The Egyptian and Japanese Mural paintings team conducted the conservation treatment on Seshem-Neferu’s mural paintings. First, the experts prepared for the fabrication of a Prototype mount for the murals of Seshem-Neferu to not only support the backside but also make them portable and easy to handle. Then, they proceeded with […]
The wood Lab team in GEM-CC is conducting non-destructive analysis on King Tutankhamen’s beds, using portable fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), fibre- optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS) and Raman spectroscopy, these analyses were based on previous results of multi spectral technique and portable XRF spectrometer. The conservators proceeded with diagnostic analysis to […]
Conservators continued diagnostic analysis at GEM-CC for follow artifacts, using hand held XRF device, which is an elemental analysis instrument that uses X-ray fluorescence technology to identify the elements of the scanned surface, which is the mural paintings in this case. First, the team preformed non-destructive XRF analysis directly on […]
The Egyptian- Japanese conservators are working jointly to conduct the final conservation process for the mural paintings. The first stage of conserving mural paintings started with removing previous conservation mortar with Sonic cutter device provided by JICA. then, conservators proceeded with the second stage, where they apply a new mortar […]
