Cultural heritage institute restores Buddhist scriptures on bark at Mongolia's request
A conservation scientist cleans a Buddhist scripture written on bark from Mongolia at the Cultural Heritage Conservation Science Center. / Courtesy of National Research Institute of Cultural HeritageBy Kwon Mee-yooThe Cultural Heritage Conservation Science Center in the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (NRICH) finished conservation treatment on 17th-century Buddhist scriptures from Mongolia.The Institute of History and Archaeology at Mongolian Academy of Sciences requested restoration of the Buddhist scriptures written on bark and paper, which had been excavated in 2019 from the archaeological site Sum Tolgoi in Tes soum, Zavkhan Province in western Mongolia. The Buddhist scriptures were excavated as part of the "Cities of Mongolia in the 17th century" project led by Chuluun Sampildondov, the current Mongolian minister of culture, who served as director of the institute from 2018 to 2019.The Mongolian institute sent 21 artifacts including the bark and wood scriptures to Korea's NRICH as the two signed the Arrangement on the Korea-Mongolia Joint Project for Research an
