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La Grande Halle de la Villette, in Paris, will dedicate an exhibition to Ramses II from Friday, April 7. Among the 180 pieces in the exhibition will be his coffin, exceptionally loaned to Paris. It was France that restored the mummy in 1976.
The gestures are delicate, commensurate with the piece uncovered: the cedar coffin of Ramses II. This is the second time that the play, which rarely leaves Cairo (Egypt)comes to Paris. In 1976, the device came under the state visit. The coffin then contained the pharaoh’s mummy, eaten away by mold. The French scientific community had the mission to save it. Nuclear engineers from a Grenoble laboratory got down to it. The technique, then innovative, is still used.
The centerpiece of an exhibition
The works are introduced into a sealed irradiation chamber. “The dose we are going to do for a fungicide treatment against fungi will be around 1,000 times the lethal dose for humans”explains Laurent Cortellanuclear physics engineer in laboratory Arc-Nucléart. The 1976 operation was successful, and the mummy was repatriated the next day to Cairo. Today, Egypt, grateful, lends its coffin to France. He will be the part mistress of the exhibition in Paris, which enlightened through a multitude of objects, the 60 years of reign of Ramses II.
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