Japan to give some $620,000 for conservation project in China

TOKYO, Japan - Japan decided Nov. 9, 2001 to give $623,798 to the first phase of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Longmen grottoes (undated file photo) conservation project to help preserve the sculptures carved in cave walls over a millennium ago in China. The more than 2,000 grottoes, located in Henan Province, contain about 110,000 Buddhist sculptures over a period of 400 years from the late period of the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty (493-907).

• Product Code
• ILEA001086806

• Registered date
• 2001/11/09 00:00:00

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• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

• Media source
• 2001 Kyodo News

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• 1864 × 1553 pixel

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• 1.96(MB)*

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