"Artifact Conservation" Result

The dust of the Sichuan Basin holds secrets that have waited over three millennia to be uncovered. When farmers first stumbled upon jade and bronze fragments near the town of Guanghan in 1929, no one could have anticipated that they had opened a door

The air in the laboratory is cool, still, and charged with a palpable reverence. Under the precise glow of adjustable LED lights, a conservator’s hands, steadied by decades of experience and the latest in micro-tool technology, hover over a fragment