The Grand Egyptian Museum Joint Conservation Project Seminar took place last week on the 29th of August, 2018 at the Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center. This seminar was planned to be a form of public relations to the project by introducing the work of the project to the conservators at […]
After the transportation of King Tutankhamun’s third funerary bed to the GEM in April, the wood team has started documenting and analyzing the bed before working on the conservation plan of it. First, they identified whether there has been any conservation work applied on the bed or not by using […]
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 […]
On Wednesday 11th of July, the GEM-JC conservation experts and project office members had a meeting to discuss the importance of procurement management. The team discussed the procurement process regarding each lab’s stock check, ordering of materials, and the duration of shipment. They also discussed how long some materials might […]
For the past two weeks, the organic lab’s team at the Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center (GEM-CC) has been documenting the project’s target textile artifacts. Everyday, several artifacts have been photographed using a documentation camera. This documentation is usually done before, during and after conservation to document the condition of […]
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 […]
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 […]
After the transportation of the King Tutankhamun’s last Funerary Bed, the wood lab members at the Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center started the technical imaging of the artifact using UV and IR filters and light sources. This type of photography helps in identifying whether there had been any past conservation […]
Saturday, 5th of May- The Fourth Grand Egyptian Museum International Tutankhamun Conference has taken place at Le Meridien Pyramids Hotel under the supervision of Dr. Tarek Tawfik, the General Supervisor of the Grand Egyptian Museum. The Conference started with a welcome speech given by the Minister of Antiquities, Dr Khaled […]
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 […]
