Modern Scientific Applications that Must Be Used in the Restoration and Conservation of Monuments

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Professor of Restoration and Conservation of Antiquities, Faculty of Archeology, Fayoum University Dean of the Faculty of Archeology, University of Aswan

Abstract

In the last years restoration and conservation of archaeology has developed to depend on the recent developed natural science, which caused a great turn over in the field in order to preserve cultural heritage.
Therefore, the success for any project to restore and conserve monuments depends on close cooperation and interfering between different particles to reach that goal which is known as: Inter disciplinary system, which was mentioned at Venice charter (1964) that stated:
It is obligatory to use advanced technology sciences to develop restoration and conservation of monuments.
That was also affirmed by the    conference on 1976. And from that perspective the research mentions a number of these modern applications used in that field and some of its pros and cons.