Joint US-Egyptian project to restore hundreds of pharaonic coffins

Egypt is set to restore over 600 pharaonic wooden coffins under a joint US-Egyptian project, Reuters reported. The project is funded through a USD 130k conservation grant given by the US to Egypt in December 2015. That project is part of a larger U.S.-Egypt treaty signed in 2016 to curtail illicit trafficking of antiquities. "There has been no other project like this worldwide with this number of coffins being documented or restored," said head of the museum's restoration department Moemen Othman.