JICA President in the Middle East and Europe visits Khufu after extracting 1,060 pieces

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Visit Sakamoto Takema Director of JICA in the Middle East and Europe, and his accompanying delegation, the second Khufu complex, today to discuss the latest developments in the project. The project was received by Mamdouh Taha, the Project's Project Supervisor, Issa Zidane, Project Manager and Hiroshima Krukoshi, Director of the Japanese side.

During the visit

Issa Zaidan pointed out that the Director of JICA was keen to watch the process of lifting the wood from the hole of the boat and to enter the restoration laboratories at the site using the scientific methods followed. He listened to the explanation of the repair steps for all the wood pieces extracted, and the documentation work carried out by the team using the three-dimensional "laser residents" of all the pieces of wood.

During the visit

Mamdouh Taha, the project's archeologist, said that Sakamoto Takema He expressed his great happiness at the stages reached by the project, wishing success and success to the project and the team. He explained that the team has extracted about 1060 pieces of wood out of a total of 1260 pieces, 1030 pieces were restored and 824 pieces of wood were transferred to the large Egyptian museum in the shooting range.

During the visit

During the visit

It is worth mentioning that the project of Khufu II is a joint Egyptian-Japanese project between the archeology and Higashi University of Japan, headed by Dr. Sakuji Yoshimura and with the support of JICA.

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