Sánchez, Alberto Tuñón, José Montejo, Manuel Amate, Pilar Ceprián, Bautista Rousaki, Anastasia Costa, Mafalda Saelens, Delphine Lycke, Sylvia Vandenabeele, Peter
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Hemeda, Sayed
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The Valley of the Kings (KV) is a UNESCO world heritage site with more than thirty opened tombs. Since the first tombs were constructed, at least 24 historical flash flood events has been identified, each of which has been contributed to the destruction and deterioration of the tombs. Recently, most of these tombs have been damaged and inundated af...
Orr, Scott Allan
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Carillons are a diverse and global form of musical and civic heritage: musical instruments comprised of a series of 23 or more bells, typically hung in a tower-like structure, tuned chromatically and played from a touch-sensitive manual and pedal console using an elaborate mechanical action. Carillon bells have a distinct series of musical overtone...
Pozzi, Federica Basso, Elena Centeno, Silvia A. Smieska, Louisa M. Shibayama, Nobuko Berns, Roy Fontanella, Megan Stringari, Lena
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The Thannhauser Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, represents an important survey of European avant-garde art production during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the works included in this collection are three paintings by Vincent van Gogh, namely Roadway with Underpass (1887), Landscape with Snow (1888), and Moun...
Liu, Jiaojiao Li, Yuhu Hu, Daodao Xing, Huiping Chao, Xiaolian Cao, Jing Jia, Zhihui
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Textiles are valuable cultural heritage items that are susceptible to several degradation processes due to their sensitive nature, such as the case of ancient ma colored-paintings. Therefore, it is important to take measures to protect the precious ma artifacts. Generally, ″ma″ includes ramie, hemp, flax, oil flax, kenaf, jute, and so on. In this p...
Rasmussen, Kaare Lund van der Plicht, Johannes La Nasa, Jacopo Ribercini, Erika Colombini, Maria Perla Delbey, Thomas Skytte, Lilian Schiavone, Simone Kjær, Ulla Grinder-Hansen, Poul
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Two types of materials were sampled as part of an investigation of the relics of the Holy Catholic Church of the Apostles St Philip and St James in the Basilica dei Santi Apostoli in Rome: bone- and mummy-materials and architectural samples. The analyses encompassed radiocarbon dating, thermoluminescence dating, gas and liquid chromatographic separ...
Song, Jiahang Xiang, Wei Yan, Shaojun Zhou, Weiqiang Ma, Linyan
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As a royal temple, the Fengguo Temple has profound historical, artistic, scientific and social values. With a thousand-year history, it is one of the three existing temples of the Liao Dynasty in China. Now there remains the Main Hall with delicate wall paintings and vivid painted sculptures. The research subject of this paper is the painted Bodhis...
Jasieńko, Jerzy Raszczuk, Krzysztof Frąckiewicz, Piotr Kleszcz, Kajetan Bednarz, Łukasz
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The paper presents the results of experimental testing of six masonry rings built to technical scale and strengthened with CFRP strips and sheets and also with an FRCM system with PBO, glass, basalt and carbon fibers. The rings were subjected to tensile loads induced by four hydraulic jacks. The assumption is that the masonry rings are a representa...
Kotlar, Marta Matijaković Mlinarić, Nives Desnica, Vladan Marušić, Katarina
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A bronze kettle dating from the 1st to 2nd century was found in a riverbed of the Kupa river in Croatia. After excavation it spent another 50 years in a depot of a museum in atmospheric conditions prior to starting the conservation treatment and our studies. A study on the surface layers development was performed to determine the whereabouts of the...
Zhang, Chan Huang, Jianbin Zhu, Tiequan Zhang, Rongling
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Guangzhou Tongcao paintings in Qing Dynasty of China witnessed the exchange of economy, culture, art and technology between China and foreign countries, which were an important export product in historical China. In this paper, by using Optical Stereo Microscope, Polarized Light Microscope, Scanning Electron Microscope attached Energy Dispersive Sp...