2025 Poster Session

This poster discusses the conservation procedures of a botanical collar of king Tutankhamun which was discovered among the king's collection in 1922. The collar consisted of four rows, the first and second rows consisted of olive leaves and corn flowers. While the third row consisted of willow leaves, corn flowers and petals of Lotus flowers. The fourth row consisted of olive leaves, corn flowers and wild celery leaves. This collar was stored for approximately 100 years in the Egyptian museum in Tahrir and never exhibited before. When it was received in the Grand Egyptian Museum, conservation center, the collar was examined and found suffered from deformation, flowers were scattered inside the cardboard box, high acidity, dryness, infestation and very fragile. The collar was in need for urgent intervention. Therefore, a conjoined team of scientific department and organic materials conservators undertook conservation procedures of the botanical collar. The conservation actions included fumigation, recollecting for flower petals and restoring for the collar shape according to the original pictures of the discovery and records. All petals and collar parts were consolidated by Klucel G and supported when needed by Kozo 3 gm Japanese paper from back side. Beside using natural dyed linen thread for collecting procedure. After finishing conservation actions, the collar was prepared for exhibiting by designing a proper mount made of inert materials won't cause any further deterioration. This poster demonstrates the power of united work and the benefits of knowledge exchange between different scientific field and how it reflected positively on the final conservation results.