Friday, April 3, 2009
Oldest Oil Paintings found in Cave (national Geographic link added)
On the sixth of February of two-thousand six a mural made with oil paints was found in one of the famed Bamian Caves in Afghanistan and evidence of a oil-based binder that would have dried paint and help it adhere to the rocky surface it was painted on. With the murals were the remains of two giant destroyed Buddhas, and the mural was predated to be at least one-hundred years. Researchers made the discovery when trying to conduct a chemical analysis for preservation and restoration of Bamian. Which I think is all very cool.
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