US EditionEgyptian conservators give King Tut's treasures new glow
EGYPT, JUL 7 – Egypt and Japan restored over 5,000 King Tutankhamun artifacts for the Grand Egyptian Museum, a $1 billion project featuring a live conservation lab and the world's largest archaeological collection.
- Egyptian conservators and archaeologists have labored over a decade to restore King Tut's collection ahead of the Grand Egyptian Museum's delayed opening.
- The museum's launch, originally planned for July 3, 2025, was postponed due to regional security concerns after delays caused by political upheaval and the Covid-19 pandemic.
- The restoration involved detailed analyses like photographic documentation, X-rays, and material testing to understand fragile pieces stabilised with reversible adhesives before display.
- The Grand Egyptian Museum will house over 100,000 artifacts, including 5,000 objects from King Tut's collection, many restored for the first time since their 1922 discovery by Howard Carter.
- Opening this year as the world's largest museum for one civilization, the GEM includes a live conservation lab where visitors can watch experts restore a 4,500-year-old boat over three years.
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Cairo.- In the Great Egyptian Museum each piece will tell a story and a team of 250 specialists makes sure here is recovering the beauty of every work that passes through their eyes. Eid Mertah is one of those experts; in his adolescence, he spent reading books about the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphics and dreaming of having in his hands the golden mask of the monarch. "I studied archaeology for Tut", says Mertah, 36 years ol…
Egyptian conservators give King Tut’s treasures new glow
As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy pharaoh's golden mask in his hands. Years later, the Egyptian conservator found himself gently brushing centuries-old dust off one of Tut's gilded ceremonial shrines -- a piece he had only seen in textbooks. "I studied
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