Improving Environmental Conditions in the Tomb of Tutankhamen

ABSTRACT

The tomb of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt, one of the major attractions of the World Heritage Site of Ancient Thebes and its Necropolis on the West Bank of modern day Luxor, is today a destination for mass tourism. Visitors to the tomb increase relative humidity, elevate carbon dioxide levels, and encourage natural ventilation which facilitates entry of dust into the tomb. These conditions negatively impact the wall paintings and remaining artifacts in the tomb and create an uncomfortable environment for visitors. The deposition of dust inside the tomb collects on uneven wall painting surfaces, obscures their legibility and necessitates cycles of cleaning, which in turn leads to further damage. Developing environmental management strategies in the tomb to counter the effects of visitors and mitigate dust entry is an important component of the collaborative project between the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities (MoA) to conserve the tomb. These included implementation of a filtered-air supply and exhaust ventilation system to stabilize the interior microclimate and reduce dust in order to improve visitor comfort and contribute to the long-term preservation of the tomb.     

Preventive Conservation Applied to Wallpaintings in a Desert Environment in Mexico

ABSTRACT

The church of San Diego de Alcalá, located in Pitiquito, Sonora , in Mexico, lies on a missionary road founded by the Jesuit Eusebio F. Kino, which, with the expulsion of the Jesuit order in 1767, passed into the care of the Franciscans. It contains wallpaintings which presented deterioration problems whose cause was not easy to determine, since the damage appeared to be inconsistent with the techniques used and the environmental conditions. With an interdisciplinary team, a methodology was designed for a combined study of the environment of the church and its wallpaintings. Thermal imaging of the exterior and interior walls indicated that the building was made up of different materials, and the junctions between them explained the different deterioration pathologies between one zone and another. Hydrological maps for groundwater in the locality were studied, to elucidate the presence of water in a desert zone; abundant sources of water in the subsoil were identified, which, because of overexploitation of the land, have been diminishing over time. This allowed the elaboration of a plan for site management, through the identification of those deterioration factors that can be mitigated by simple maintenance actions that are inherent to the environment and the materials, which enabled a scheduled maintenance scheme to be implemented. This improved the condition of the building and its wallpaintings, while reducing the resource invested to achieve this goal.     

国际视野下的"共享工程"

20世纪90年代以来,许多国家纷纷采用政府主导的模式推动网络技术的普及和数字资源的传播,出现了一些和我国的"全国文化信息资源共享工程"类似的政府公益性项目。文章介绍了美国、英国、印度、南非与我国"全国文化信息资源共享工程"类似的部分项目,分析了国外类似项目体现出的主要特点,提出了我国"共享工程"可资借鉴的国际经验。     

Asp在个人防火墙上的应用

本针对asp在防火墙上的应用进行简单的探讨，主要利用request对象的Server Variables属性获取ip地址并进行验证。     

Conserving a boundary: The conservation and management of a Berlin Wall mural

In 1991, five segments of the Berlin Wall, first painted by renowned contemporary artists Thierry Noir and Kiddy Citny, were bought at auction, transported to the USA, and placed in an outdoor environment that severely advanced the deterioration of the painted surface and reinforced concrete substrate. This paper discusses aspects of the conservation treatment and management plan for these painted segments of the Berlin Wall. The strategy and criteria for the conservation program were defined by a multidisciplinary team that comprised conservators, concrete specialists, and engineers; the deliberations of this team also led to an appropriate treatment and management plan. The choice to intervene at a minimal level meant treatment was restricted to stabilization rather than restoration or reconstruction of deteriorated areas. Additionally, the team decided to reinstall the pieces indoors to reduce future deterioration.     

玻璃幕墙施工的质量控制

玻璃幕墙具有光洁、明快、挺拔、轻质、高强等特点,同时它将建筑物外围护墙的防风、遮雨、保温、隔热、防噪音、防空气渗透等使用功能与建筑装饰功能有效地融合为一体,并作为结构的一部分,直接承受荷载和地震作用.但其构造复杂,施工技术要求高,专业性强.因此,对玻璃幕墙工程的质量控制十分重要.本文通过对华南某医学院图书馆玻璃幕墙施工工程为例,根据国家有关规范,从设计、选材、制作及施工等方面分析了玻璃幕墙工程的质量控制要点.     

Analysis of Modernist Concept of Time and Consciousness in The Mark on the Wall

The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf mirrors the features of modernists’ fictions.By a close analysis of the smart use of mixed tenses as well as the "stream of consciousness" technique in the short story,the paper exemplifies Woolf’s unique writing style,an innovation against the traditional narrative devices.     

高职幼教专业语文教学模块构建

根据幼教专业的特性,其语文教学应侧重于“说”和“听”两部分,更重视口头语言的交流性,以及交流的生动性和有效性,更侧重于学生将来毕业时的学以致用,实现尽快适应理想幼儿教师角色的目标。本文结合自身教学实践,细化了幼教专业语文教学的目标,以幼教的职业期待为指导,构建了幼教专业语文教学的具体模块：1．“古诗词音乐表演”模块;2．“生动演讲者”模块;3“话剧表演”模块;4．“科普主题墙”模块。     

罗伯特·弗洛斯特的《补墙》中的二元对立

罗伯特·弗洛斯特的名诗《补墙》自问世至今,各评论众说纷纭,争论的焦点在于诗歌中不确定的主题、叙述者和邻居的矛盾、以及叙述者行为和内心的冲突。本文拟从结构主义所提倡的二元对立的研究方法入手,对罗伯特·弗洛斯特的名诗《补墙》中拆墙和补墙的主题对立、现代思想和传统思想的对立、以及叙述者行为和心理的对立进行分析。