04 Dec 2003

Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road, Jun 2004
Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Supplied note: "Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Second International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites, Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China, June 28-July 3, 2004.
This is a postponement from the original summer 2003 dates due to the SARS epidemic.
Organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Dunhuang Academy.
The purpose of this conference is to bring together specialists in relevant aspects of cultural preservation for the exchange of ideas on the conservation and management of cave temple sites along the Silk Road. Because of limited facilities, the number of delegates is restricted to 200. Conference languages are English and Chinese.
The conference program will include visits to the Mogao grottoes, a World Heritage Site with wall paintings and statuary dating from the 4th to the 14th centuries. A ten- day post-conference tour visiting Silk Road sites between Urümqi and Kashgar, in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is also planned.
The full conference announcement is posted in the Conservation section of the Getty Web site, [see the URL below - ed.] - kl."
URL http://www.getty.edu/conservation/activities/mogao/grottoconf.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.getty.edu/conservation/activities/mogao/grottoconf.html
Link reported by: Kathleen Louw (klouw[use"@"]getty.edu), forwarded by central-eurasia-l[use"@"]fas.harvard.edu
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