The Grand Egyptian Museum contains a huge amount of artifacts that exceed 50 thousand artifacts, and it includes the entire collection of King Tutankhamun and will be displayed for the first time completely before the public, meaning that visitors are on a date with more than 5 thousand pieces of the golden king at the time of the museum opening, But what we will review during the next report is the secret of the material that Carter, the discoverer of Tutankhamun’s tomb, placed on the king’s possessions, and did it affect the artifacts or not?
Inside the wood factory in the Grand Egyptian Museum, a group of restoration specialists told us about what is happening with the golden king’s holdings, saying: The timber plant received a unique group of King Tutankhamun’s possessions, including a number of beds and war wheels, and during their discovery in the king’s tomb was the discoverer of the tomb, Carter He coated the wooden parts of the Pharaonic king’s possessions with wax, to protect them from environmental factors.
The question here is, did the wax material preserve the artifacts of King Tutankhamun? The restoration specialists explained, the wax material has already succeeded in protecting a large part, but at the present time and with the discovery of modern restoration methods, as we work in the restoration centers of the Grand Egyptian Museum, it took a great effort to remove that layer, in preparation for the modern restoration work using modern scientific means.
The specialists added the wax material and it preserved a number of pieces from the influence of environmental factors. There are also some contents that were affected by the wax material, especially after the gilded sides, due to the occurrence of an oxidation process between the wax layer and the wood, and when these collectibles arrived we searched for how to remove the wax layers and collect for the separate parts From the layer of gold, treating a group of cracks, and we did that and succeeded in restoring the possessions of King Tutankhamun by modern scientific methods and returning the pieces as they were in ancient Egypt.
And on how to work with the pieces, the factory receives all the wooden antiquities of all kinds, whether they are colored or gilded wood, or inlaid, and the work is done with the piece by making checks, documentation and analyzes available, photographing them, and an experimental study to conduct tests with the materials that will be used in the restoration, considering that Each piece is a special case in its own right, and we develop a time plan for work until the restoration of each piece is completed on time, and indeed we have succeeded in implementing that, and all the possessions of the golden king are ready for the museum show, which began a few days ago.
Tue, Mar. 30, 2021
