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Copy of Tutankhamun's tomb

17.11.2011

The breath of thousands of tourists visiting King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor is damaging the frescoes on its walls. Therefore, it was decided to make an exact copy of the famous object of antiquity.

The Spanish restoration firm Factum Arte, known for making a copy of the Altamira Cave in Spain in 2001, where moisture and carbon dioxide released by the breath of visitors spoiled Stone Age cave paintings, took up the matter.

In November 2009, the Italians delivered several tons of equipment to Egypt and got to work. The walls of the tomb and the sarcophagus were scanned by a specially designed three-dimensional laser scanner with a resolution of one hundred million points per square meter. Made 8000 digital macro photographs with a resolution of 600-800 dpi (the resolution of the human eye is about 250 dpi). Then, according to the scan data, a computer-controlled milling machine cut out the exact relief of the walls of the burial chamber and the sarcophagus on blocks of polystyrene. They were pasted pictures printed on a special sheet material that easily sticks to uneven surfaces.

The finished copy will be delivered from Madrid to Egypt when political passions subside in that country. The original tomb is planned to be closed to everyone except archaeologists and very wealthy tourists who are ready to pay several thousand dollars for a visit.

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