Salt damage on the wall paintings of the festival temple of thutmosis III, Karnak temples complex, Upper Egypt. A case study

International Journal of Conservation Science

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 133-142

  Marey Mahmoud, Hussein ^a   Kantiranis, Nikolaos ^b   Stratis, John ^b  

^a Cairo Univ   (Egypt)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Karnak temples complex; Salt damage; SEM EDS; Wall paintings; XRPD

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870235882     PISSN: 2067533X     EISSN: 20678223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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