2025 Poster Session

The nanotechnology technique and its use in cleaning and consolidating the mural paintings :

Abstract:

The stone antiquities represent the largest percentage of the total antiquities found in Egypt which are represented by tombs , temples , pyramids , statues, and others and the inscriptions writings and mural paintings they carry of great  importance  therefore it is necessary to study them well in terms of knowing the type of stones , their nature , the wall pictures found in them and their components studying the factors and manifestations of damage affecting them , and the best modern  methods  that can be used in their restoration in order to achieve the best results to preserve this important and rare world heritage . in this research we will discuss the latest of these methods, which is the use ofnanotechnology in restoration which is one of the latest  technologies used recently in various fields and then in restoration due to its extreme accuracy and because it is safer . we will discuss its application and show its results on some very important and distinctive wall painting that were found in the tomb ( KV20 ) of Hatshepsut and the tomb ( KV38 ) of Tuhuthmosis II . they date back to the early era of the 18th dynasty which represents the first and primary source for the book ( Amy-Dawat ) which is theoldest royal book regardingthe other world . 

Keywords: nanotechnology  ,consolidation, Amy dawat ,mural paintings