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Ancient Buddhas painted in oils

Were painters on the Silk Road way ahead of the Europeans?

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  1. Cotte, M. et al., J. Analyt. Atomic Spectrosc. (in press, 2008)

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Ball, P. Ancient Buddhas painted in oils. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.770

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