As part of the collaboration with the Egyptian Museum, particular attention was paid to the study and treatment of the surface finishing layers of a group of 4 sarcophagus lids of the XXV-XXVI dynasty from the Ramesside tombs (Valley of the Queens, Luxor), which belong to 3 generations of the same family.

The case study was significant both technically and in terms of understanding the alterations of the materials, having found evidence of exposure to high heat, and made it possible to verify the effectiveness of the combination of LASER technology and chemical methods for cleaning the products. A research project is being developed with the aim of unveiling technical and technological aspects of the production of these sarcophagi and, above all, of the red finishes found.

Buddhist visual and material cultures are often understood in relation to their circulation from India to the rest of Asia, while little attention has been paid to understanding their migration westward, although there are numerous examples preserved in public and private collections.

Most of the artefacts, coming from different geographical and cultural contexts of Asia, have travelled in Europe in recent centuries as a bargaining chip and within the art market, thus being completely decontextualised and losing all devotional value in favour of aesthetic ones, often adapted to Western taste to attract collectors.

The conservative intervention has maintained as a common thread the desire to return the most accurate knowledge of the artifacts, providing for a particularly thorough diagnostic campaign. The project, developed in collaboration with the Politecnico di Torino for the creation of a digital twin and with the Physics Department of the University of Turin for digital tomographic analysis, is to be considered work in progress It foresees a progressive integration of results.