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A team from the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is now at the Egyptian museum in Tahrir to start the packing of King Tutankhamun’s funerary bed in a step towards its transportation to its permanent location at the GEM.
Tarek Tawfik, GEM Supervisor General said that the team is now packing one of the three golden king’s funerary bed which is made of wood gilded with golden sheets and decorated with the head of goddess Sekhmet.
Before packing the bed was subjected to scientific documentation, first aid restoration in order to guarantee its safe transportation.
Eissa Zidan, Head of the first aid restoration at the GEM said that the packing process is carried out in collaboration with a Japanese scientific team and it would last for eight hours. The team will use packing materials that are free of acidity and unites that are against vibrations during the bed’s transportation. He asserted that Heat measuring devices and vibration intensity would be used on the bed during transportation.
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