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The international project destined to study how to restore possible best the underground cave of Longmen has been carried through, indicated Wednesday Chen Ailan that directs the administration of the vestiges cultural of the city of Luoyang.

It was necessary eight years to finish this project of 1,25 million of dollars intended to protect the statuaries and bas-reliefs built bouddhiques in the cliffs and that survived to the floodings, to the wars, to the depredations and to the other disasters, natural or caused by the man during the last millennium.

This restoration of the underground cave of Longmen, that is on the territory of the city of Luoyang in the Henan, has been financed by the Unesco and the Chinese and Japanese governments.

The underground cave are threatened by their exhibition to the inclemencies, by the risks of crumbling and by the infiltrations of water. During the season of rains, that can last of months, the visitors can hear water to drip in all underground cave.

Some cracks have been found in 37 the underground cave main to Longmen. 29 among them were in only one underground cave, concluded two years of investigatings by a committee of experts of the university of geology of China, of the institute of Research of the Relics cultural of China and the academy of the Underground cave of Longmen.

Thanks to this project, a data base of the damages undergone by the underground cave has been raised and a research to select the best manner to pour a cement to the test of the infiltrations in the crevasses has been established.

On the bases of this experience, make in three pilot cellars, a survey of feasibility has can be achieved, explained Chen Ailan.