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Fig. 6 | Heritage Science

Fig. 6

From: Geo-environmental monitoring and 3D finite elements stability analysis for site investigation of underground monuments. Horemheb tomb (KV57), Luxor, Egypt

Fig. 6

Carved and decorated walls in massive Esna shale Member are in advanced state of disintegration. Showing chert lenses. The ornamented plaster on top of the chert lenses and nodules was damaged during the first flash floods that entered the tomb some 3000 years ago. During several restoration projects over the past 200 years, cracks were filled with plaster for protection and stabilization of the tomb. The impact of the 1994 flash floods on the mural paintings inside the tomb are severely obvious

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