Exploitable results Preservation of pre-tenth century paper This project has been remarkably successful, given the limited resources available, in achieving those objectives. New analytical techniques (including liquid secondary-ion mass spectrometry, HPLC/UV-VIS and Raman spectrometry) have been developed to identify unambiguously the dyes on ancient paper, and these techniques are now being used as a means of detecting forgeries. Chemical methods of treating the manuscripts have been developed, but await final testing before being used in situ. The purchase of the spectrometer for St. Petersburg has enabled them to carry out invaluable in-house analyses, the results of which are now deposited with the British Library. The Dunhuang database is now well advanced, and (perhaps most importantly) the collaboration of the four centres is now well established and will continue into the foreseenable future. This one-year programme has provided a solid basis upon which to build for the future. Searching for OpenAIRE data... There was an error trying to search data from OpenAIRE No results available
