Mongolia: fire under control, culture heritage destroyed
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
The fire at the MPRP building seems to be extinguished. There is still smoke coming from one of the buildings. The onero art gallery building seems to be luted and damaged. The cultural heritage center is in the same building. The director of the gallery was practically crying in a tv interview in front of broken, empty displays. The worldwide known painting of a horse fiddle player was shown damaged and teased. It might be archive of the MPRP is destroyed, containing the documentation of the 20th century. People are expressing their discust with the sitation. There military on the street stopping cars. Only national tv mnb is broadcasting.
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Akira
KAMIMURA, lecturer, faculty of Mongolian studies, Tokyo University of
Foreign Studies launched an innovative website on old Mongolian
manuscripts maps in cooperation with the state archive of Mongolia. It contains 16 precious maps which are stored at the state archive for
academic use. The oldest map was estimated being made in 1803-1805.
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