Tutankhamun's South Wall: recovering the missing pieces
Working with assistance from the Griffith Institute in Oxford, who supplied a high resolution file of Harry Burton's photograph of a fragment removed from the south wall of the tomb of Tutankhamun, Factum Arte has reconstructed it's colour. All colour information is based on the high resolution recordings made in the tomb.
Work is ongoing and any colour still not identified is in orange (head-dresses and necklaces of the crouching figures). The original missing section was taken out of the tomb in order to remove the objects, it's current whereabouts unknown. Attempts are currently being made with the assistance of Dr Zahi Hawass to locate it. The re-integration of missing sections of the tombs is an important part of the work that is being carried out.
Photograph by Harry Burton in the collection of the Griffith Institute Oxford.
Colour added by Blanca Nieto at Factum Arte.
