China, France to collaborate on relics, ruins protection
7 months, 2 weeks ago

China, France to collaborate on relics, ruins protection

China Daily  

China's Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum and France's Foundation for Cultural Heritage Sciences have recently reached a cooperation agreement on the scientific research and protection of wooden relics and earthen ruins. The research on wooden relics will involve joint efforts to preserve and restore burnt wood materials from the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum, as well as research on their historical significance. Research on earthen ruins will involve studies on the durability, stability, production techniques, and damage mechanisms of the earthen ruins in the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum and the use of soil materials as building elements in France. The Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum and the Notre Dame Cathedral are globally renowned cultural heritage sites that have used significant amounts of wooden materials and have experienced fire damage in the past.

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Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats
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Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats

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A tower displaying smiling Buddha faces at the Bayon Temple in the Angkor complex, Cambodia. Domestic and foreign academic efforts in this field over the past decade, based on cases conducted under different climates and of different types of cultural relics, were reviewed at the second International Symposium on Biodeterioration and Protection of Cultural Heritage, held at the Dunhuang Academy …

Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats

China Daily  

A tower displaying smiling Buddha faces at the Bayon Temple in the Angkor complex, Cambodia. Domestic and foreign academic efforts in this field over the past decade, based on cases conducted under different climates and of different types of cultural relics, were reviewed at the second International Symposium on Biodeterioration and Protection of Cultural Heritage, held at the Dunhuang Academy …

Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats

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A tower displaying smiling Buddha faces at the Bayon Temple in the Angkor complex, Cambodia. Domestic and foreign academic efforts in this field over the past decade, based on cases conducted under different climates and of different types of cultural relics, were reviewed at the second International Symposium on Biodeterioration and Protection of Cultural Heritage, held at the Dunhuang Academy …

Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats
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Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats

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Microbiologist Sun Qun and her student taking samples of soil around ancient ivory in Pit No 7 at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Guanghan, Sichuan province, in July 2021. Wu says, over the past decade, more and more research institutions realized that the combination of zoology, botany and microbiology with archaeology and cultural relics conservation is appealing and has the potential …

Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats

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Microbiologist Sun Qun and her student taking samples of soil around ancient ivory in Pit No 7 at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Guanghan, Sichuan province, in July 2021. Wu says, over the past decade, more and more research institutions realized that the combination of zoology, botany and microbiology with archaeology and cultural relics conservation is appealing and has the potential …

Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Scientists brainstorm heritage biothreats

China Daily  

A tower displaying smiling Buddha faces at the Bayon Temple in the Angkor complex, Cambodia. Domestic and foreign academic efforts in this field over the past decade, based on cases conducted under different climates and of different types of cultural relics, were reviewed at the second International Symposium on Biodeterioration and Protection of Cultural Heritage, held at the Dunhuang Academy …

China, France to cooperate on Notre Dame restoration
7 months, 2 weeks ago

China, France to cooperate on Notre Dame restoration

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A drone view of the River Seine and Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, as Paris prepares to host the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Paris, France, April 20, 2024. The collaborative research conducted with France's Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine primarily focuses on the protection of wooden remains and earthen archaeological sites, according to the museum located in Northwest China's …

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes
8 months, 2 weeks ago

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes

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China's Dunhuang Academy and France's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts have collaborated to create a digital resource library in the Library Cave of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes. The Mogao Grottoes is a UNESCO World Heritage site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. The two institutes have recently signed a memorandum of cooperation and …

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes
8 months, 2 weeks ago

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes

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China's Dunhuang Academy and France's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts have collaborated to create a digital resource library in the Library Cave of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes. The Mogao Grottoes is a UNESCO World Heritage site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. The two institutes have recently signed a memorandum of cooperation and …

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes
8 months, 2 weeks ago

China's Dunhuang, French museum to co-build database of Mogao Grottoes

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China's Dunhuang Academy and France's Guimet National Museum of Asian Arts have collaborated to create a digital resource library in the Library Cave of the millennium-old Mogao Grottoes. The Mogao Grottoes is a UNESCO World Heritage site boasting rich collections of Buddhist artworks in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province. The two institutes have recently signed a memorandum of cooperation and …

Cultural heritage a key theme for coming year, conference told
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Cultural heritage a key theme for coming year, conference told

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This year should see greater efforts to enhance cultural heritage, said participants at a national conference attended by sector officials. The conference, held in Beijing on Friday and Saturday, summarized the work of cultural heritage authorities over the last year, and pointed out key tasks for the coming 12 months. "Major progress was made in the cultural heritage field last …

Giving Terracotta Warriors a fighting chance
1 year, 2 months ago

Giving Terracotta Warriors a fighting chance

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Cultural relic conservators restore Han Dynasty pottery figurines in a lab at the Chongqing Cultural Heritage Protection Center in 2020. The exhibition, Crafts First: Technology and Equipment for Cultural Relics Preservation, kicked off on Sept 27 and showcases technologies and equipment used in the prevention of damage, protection, research and management, as well as the use of cultural relics. In …

Work on cultural relics recognized
2 years, 5 months ago

Work on cultural relics recognized

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Seventy-nine outstanding individuals involved in cultural relics, including archaeologists, museum employees and conservators, and 49 organizations and academies were bestowed awards at the national cultural relics-related working conference in Beijing on Friday. The sector was also urged to "better explore values of cultural relics and make them 'alive'," according to the country's new guiding principle of cultural relics-related work, which …

Work on cultural relics recognized
2 years, 5 months ago

Work on cultural relics recognized

China Daily  

Seventy-nine outstanding individuals involved in cultural relics, including archaeologists, museum employees and conservators, and 49 organizations and academies were bestowed awards at the national cultural relics-related working conference in Beijing on Friday. The sector was also urged to "better explore values of cultural relics and make them 'alive'," according to the country's new guiding principle of cultural relics-related work, which …

Tibet uses sci-tech mechanism for cultural relics protection
3 years, 1 month ago

Tibet uses sci-tech mechanism for cultural relics protection

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Since 2012, Tibet has introduced science and technology into cultural relics protection. As a treasure trove of cultural relics with unique styles and great history, Southwest China's Tibet autonomous region has made steady progress in the science-based protection of cultural relics over the past few years. Since 2012, Tibet has introduced science and technology into cultural relics protection, laying a …

Cutting-edge technology deployed to decode relics' riddles
3 years, 8 months ago

Cutting-edge technology deployed to decode relics' riddles

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Archaeologists work in an "excavation capsule", which is equipped with advanced technology, at Sanxingdui Ruins in Guanghan, Sichuan province. "It's like an emergency hospital for the relics," says Wang Chong, a cultural relic conservator working on the site. "The soil is also considered as a cultural relic now," says Ran Honglin, a leading archaeologist at the ongoing excavation. Finding the …

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