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April 03, 2006: "China to Save Ancient Books by Using Egyptian Techniques"
"Beijing: China will adopt Egyptian techniques used to preserve the murals in the pyramids to save a number of Chinese ancient books which are in bad shape."
"'China's ancient books may be destroyed by acidification within a hundred years if repair techniques are not improved,' director of the rare book department of the National Library of China, Zhang Zhiqing said.'"
