The Japanese diagnostic analysis team worked together with the GEM-CC wood lab team to analyze some of the wood artifacts using XRF (X-ray Fluorescence) and Digital Microscope. This time, the teams have analyzed some of King Tutankhamen’s beds and chariots, confirming some elements found on the surface of the bed. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Grand Egyptian Museum Joint Conservation Project (GEM-JC Project) team has transported the last Chariot and Bed from the Egyptian Museum, El Tahrir to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) on April 22,2018. The GEM-JC team members were commuting to the Tahrir Museum to document the Chariot and the Bed before […]
The team of the Grand Egyptian Museum Joint Conservation Project (GEM-JC Project) completed the transportation of King Tutankhamun’s 4th Chariot on 10th April 2018. The Chariot had been exhibited at Luxor Museum, which made the transportation team concerned about the timing of the transportation due to the sudden climate changes that […]
Since March, 2018, some members from the Grand Egyptian Museum Joint Conservation team have gone to Luxor Museum to prepare for the transportation of the 4th Chariot of King Tutankhamun to the Grand Egyptian Museum. The Documentation team first checked the condition of the Chariot. Then they started scanning it […]
December 20 (Wed) Unpacking of objects While many people are watching the Tutankhamun’s chariot and textiles transported from the Egyptian Archaeology Museum and unpacked at GEM-CC. Egyptians and Japanese, everyone on the spot, concentrate on the boxes at the moment of opening them. Conservators check the condition of the object […]
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 […]
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 […]
