A few weeks ago I mentioned the Factum-Arte group. Here is a link to a story on their work to create an exact replica of King Tut’s tomb using 3D laser scanning and printing. This project took over 5 years and will allow conservation of the original.
Presenting the show, Rajan Datar said: “This is the future of cultural tourism. During the past hundred years many antiquities have been exposed to too much human presence and unless that is restricted they are going to collapse completely. The mindset has to change amongst tourists.”
There is also an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, UK, ‘Discovering Tutankhamun’ will showcase some of Howard Carter’s original records, drawings and photographs. It runs from 24th July to 2nd November 2014.