Cultural relics from China's Longmen Grottoes restored with digital tech

STORY: Cultural relics from China's Longmen Grottoes restored with digital tech DATELINE: Jan. 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:00:56 LOCATION: LUOYANG, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of exhibition STORYLINE: An exhibition opened on digital reconstruction of cultural relics scattered at home and abroad from the Longmen Grottoes at Luoyang Museum in central China's Henan Province on Saturday. The Longmen Grottoes Research Institute has used digital technologies such as 3D modelling to restore original looks of these cultural relics. Seven restored images of cultural relics have been unveiled, five of which are being exhibited for the first time. Located in Luoyang, the UNESCO World Heritage site has over 2,300 grottoes with 110,000 Buddhist figures and images, over 80 dagobas, and 2,800 inscribed tablets created between the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-557) and Song Dynasty (960-1279). In the early 20th Century, the grottoes were largely damaged and looted, with many Buddha statues carried overseas. Xinh