The role of molds in Reproduction of pharaohnic sculptures in the New Kingdom

Tourists are coming _ everywhere to see the ancient Egyptian monuments _ which the whole world received the roots of civilizations including science and arts, these civilizations which have that great influence on the world.

Monument-fonder of tourists and specialists in the monumental field are always attempting to have the transcriptions of some of the monuments and monumental molds to be the best souvenir of their journey.

The ancient Egyptian monuments – as known – suffer _ different damaging factors, but we could not deny that some of these inherited monuments are damaged in different ways, our role comes not only _ protecting these monuments by repairing and maintenance but it comes by transcripting them using the most recent scientific and technical methods and making these transcriptions available inside the country and abroad, this will be our commercial style which plays important role in our national economy.

The problem and the aim of choosing this subject:

1-            There are, nowadays, some transcripted models of monuments, which are of bad quality and low detailed.

2-            Some of raw materials used for transcripted models are weak and not appropriate.

3-            Some of the workers in these transcription processes of the monuments are not oriented by the practical rules of the processes.

4-            The difficulty of arranging monumental international exhibitions abroad using the original pieces due to their rareness and condition, which requires the production of high quality transcriptions for exhibiting them instead abroad or in the national museums..

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