Hundreds of coffins to be restored in Egyptian conservation project

More than 600 wooden coffins at Egyptian Museum in Cairo to be documented and restored by team of conservationists

Egypt will restore hundreds of coffins dating back thousands of years to the time of the pharaohs as part of an American-Egyptian project to preserve and document one of the world's oldest civilisations, a director of the project said.

The conservation effort, funded by a US grant, will restore more than 600 wooden coffins that date to various eras of ancient Egypt and which are currently stored at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.