For the past two weeks, the Organic Lab team at the Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center (GEM-CC) has been documenting the project’s target textile artifacts. Every day, several artifacts have been photographed using a documentation camera. This documentation is usually done before, during and after conservation to document the condition […]
Documentation and Planning of Mounting for the Textile Artifacts
Members of the Organic Conservation Lab in the Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center are currently documenting and preparing for the mount of artifacts in preparation of the soft opening of the museum which is planned to take place in near future. The team has continued their work with Organic Japanese […]
Press Release: Another Transportation of Tutankhamun’s Chariot and Textiles
Press Release -December 20, 2017 (Wed) “Another Transportation of Tutankhamun’s Chariot and Textiles completed” 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 another chariot and 2 textile […]
More Analysis with X-ray & Multi-spectral Imaging
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 […]
Textile team starts discussing the preparation of mount
The Textile team has started discussing the specification of the mount. Mount is a essential factor in terms of both exhibition and preventive conservation. Textile team, informed with final display design, started discussion on mounting methods with many stakeholders including display planners, curators, and conservators. In the meetings, 4 different […]
High resolution photography documentation of Lead objects
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 […]
Fumigation starts for Tutankhamun’s ritual bed and textiles
As the artifacts arrive to GEM-CC and get unpacked, the fumigation team always makes necessary visual inspection and decides the procedures for following fumigation. After visual inspection by the fumigation team, if fumigation deemed necessary, it will go on to the next process. In the case of our Follow Artifacts, […]
Textile team Makes conservation work plan for the target artifacts
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 […]
Textile team continues the documentation and makes the conservation plan
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 […]
Textile’s first condition check
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 […]