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A Temple Reborn: Conserving Preah Khan

In 1989, at the invitation of the Cambodian government, the World I Monuments Fund embarked on an ambitious, multidisciplinary I conservation effort at Angkor—one of the first of its kind undertaken by Western experts after nearly two decades of civil unrest. WMF discovered that, while the...Read more
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Cambodia
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Preah Khan Temple
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2010

A Walk Around Humayun's Tomb

Humayun’s Tomb and its surrounding monuments form a vast complex, with 30 acres of gardens surrounding the central platform on which Humayun’s tomb stands. Other than Humayun’s Tomb, there are a number of other structures within the enclosure and immediately outsideRead more
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India
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Delhi Heritage Route
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Date: 
Fall 2003

ICON, Fall 2003

Few sites are as romantic and sublime as the majestic, yet crumbling castles and abbeys of Great Britain and Ireland. Though most are but spare renderings of their former selves, they evoke a timeless beauty, a golden age of art and architecture. For all their splendor, however, many of these...Read more
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Spring 2003

ICON, Spring 2003

On April 10, the world stood by as war-torn Baghdad's National Museum and Manuscript Library, the latter a repository for some 5,000 of the earliest-known documents, were sacked and looted. In the days that followed, numerous accounts of the tragedy surfaced in the media, yet the true...Read more
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Winter 2003

ICON, Winter 2003

Of all the challenges facing the field of preservation, among the greatest has been the replication of ancient techniques or methods of manufacture that are no longer practiced. This issue we highlight tw o projects that have required a revitalization of lost, or vanishing, arts. At Qianlong's...Read more
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Spring 2003

Jewel of India

Strategically sited on a Rajasthan hilltop, the fortified city of Jaisalmer is one of India’s greatest architectural treasures. Founded in a . d. 1156 by the Rajput prince, Rawal Jaisal, Jaisalmer is known colloquially as Sonar Kila, or the “Golden Fort,” after the luminous sandstone of which it is...Read more
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India
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Jaisalmer Fort
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Winter 2002

ICON, Winter 2002

November is acque alte in Venice, a time when the Moon and Mother Nature conspire to inundate the ancient city, threatening its magnificent artistic treasures. While this season has brought its share of high water, little could compare with the 194-cm tide that struck the city just before sunset on...Read more
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Fall 2002

Adventures in Preservation

Kent Diebolt, founder of the private firm Vertical Access, uses mountaineering techniques and equipment to conduct architectural surveys on buildings. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the firm has been assessing the damage to buildings surrounding the World Trade Center site in lower...Read more
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United States
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Historic Lower Manhattan
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Date: 
Fall 2002

Umbrian Frescos Reborn

Eight kilometers outside Spoleto, along the old road to Todi, lies the ancient Pieve di San Brizio, a diminuitive parish church dedicated to a Syrian-Christian who took refuge in the city to avoid Roman persecution, sometime in the third century. San Brizio would later serve as the first bishop of...Read more
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Italy
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