Hello. Thank you for visiting the GEM-JC project website. My name is Koki Watanabe and I’m doing an internship at the project office. I joined the GEM-JC project for 1 month, from October 2019 to November 2019. For those of you who visited the website before might be already familiar […]
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 […]
The Grand Egyptian Museum Joint Conservation team members have completed the transportation of King Tutankhamun’s canopy. It is the last artifact to be transferred through our GEM-JC project, which is a joint project run by Grand Egyptian Museum, Ministry of Antiquities and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Aiming to jointly […]
Conservators at GEM-CC have been conducting multi-spectral imaging photography on Tutankhamen’s textiles to get more information about its condition, characteristics, etc. which are key information to finalize the documentation process. Multi-spectral imaging is a way of photography to capture image data within specific wavelength ranges across the electromagnetic spectrum allowing […]
The Organic Conservation Lab is working perseveringly to conduct the mounting process within its estimated time, by fabricating each object’s inner mounts, which will preserve and protect the artifacts during the period it’s displayed or stored. Egyptian and Japanese textile team members followed up with the proceeding work of measuring and […]
The Grand Egyptian Museum has been organizing the international Tutankhamun conference since 2015, each year with a different theme. This year, the 5th conference was held on the 4th and 5th of May 2019, to present the latest research results on King Tutankhamen artifacts, featuring iconography as its theme. Egyptian […]
