Egypt
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British Museum (Elizabeth Pamberg) With before-and-after photos. Here's an exerpt but see the above page for the full story. I visited the stores where we keep the objects excavated from the site, to check they were in good condition. Objects from...
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- The High Dam And Its Negative Effects
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamill) This is a fascinating article, to which a short exerpt simply cannot do justice. Jill Kamill looks at the impacts of the Aswan High Dam on Egypt's heritage - everything from water damage to monuments to the increase in...
- Conservation: More About The Work To Be Carried Out On The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
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- Laser Cleaning Tomb Of Neferhotep
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/3148"If only Neferhotep could see it: 3 300 years after his death, a researcher enters his tomb, directs a beam of light at the wall, and the accumulated dirt of millennia comes off with no trouble at all! Dr. Michael...
Egypt
Salt Damage on the Wall Reliefs of Dendera Temple, Egypt
Conservation Magazine
With detailed photos.
By Hesham Abbas Kamally
Hesham Abbas Kamally, "Salt Damage on the Wall Reliefs of Dendera Temple, Egypt", e-conservation magazine 23 (2012) pp. 57-70, http://www.e-conservationline.com/content/view/1056
With detailed photos.
By Hesham Abbas Kamally
The present study aims to identify and to characterize the main deterioration mechanisms that affect the wall reliefs of Dendera temple, Upper Egypt. The temple is famous for its beautiful wall reliefs, painted with religious scenes and inscriptions. Nowadays the reliefs show considerable damage, particularly due to salt weathering processes. In particular, the wall reliefs show salt crystallization at varying levels, in and between grains, and within the cement materials. The change in temperature and relative humidity in the studied area play an important role in the salts crystallization and hydration causing several deterioration features such as cracks, powdering, paint and plaster detachment, flaking, discoloration and iron oxides stains. Several samples were examined by polarizing microscopy (PLM), X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy equipped with an energy dispersive X-ray analysis system (SEM-EDX). The results reveal that the damage in wall paintings are mainly attributed to the effect of different salts such as gypsum (CaSO4•2H2O), anhydrite (CaSO4), halite (NaCl), mirabilite (Na2SO4.10H2O) and sylvite (KCl). These results allowed the identification of the types of salts and deterioration features, information that may be used in the future for conservation purposes.
Hesham Abbas Kamally, "Salt Damage on the Wall Reliefs of Dendera Temple, Egypt", e-conservation magazine 23 (2012) pp. 57-70, http://www.e-conservationline.com/content/view/1056
- Post-excavation Conservation Work At Amara West
British Museum (Elizabeth Pamberg) With before-and-after photos. Here's an exerpt but see the above page for the full story. I visited the stores where we keep the objects excavated from the site, to check they were in good condition. Objects from...
- Replicas In The Valley Of The Kings?
Al Ahram Weekly (Riad Tawfik) Tourism experts have greeted a plan to open replica tombs for tourists on the west bank at Luxor with considerable scepticism, writes Riad Tawfik Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has recently announced a radical plan...
- The High Dam And Its Negative Effects
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamill) This is a fascinating article, to which a short exerpt simply cannot do justice. Jill Kamill looks at the impacts of the Aswan High Dam on Egypt's heritage - everything from water damage to monuments to the increase in...
- Conservation: More About The Work To Be Carried Out On The Tomb Of Tutankhamun
Al Ahram Weekly Almost nine decades after its discovery the tomb of Tutankhamun is to be comprehensively restored, reports Nevine El-Aref Click to view caption Ancient Egyptian tombs are attracting more and more visitors. Their very popularity, however,...
- Laser Cleaning Tomb Of Neferhotep
http://www.technologynewsdaily.com/node/3148"If only Neferhotep could see it: 3 300 years after his death, a researcher enters his tomb, directs a beam of light at the wall, and the accumulated dirt of millennia comes off with no trouble at all! Dr. Michael...