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Culture and cultural heritage are the imprints of human civilization and architectural depiction of society and cultures. Antique documents and cultural heritages such as historic buildings, monuments, manuscripts and paintings are brittle and undergo physical, chemical and biological deterioration during the course of time. Escalating air pollution and global warming are the main cause of deterioration of stone monuments and artworks. The deterioration process can be restored by employing various microbiological tools such as biocleaning, biomineralization, biocementation and biofilm formation. This chapter summarizes eco-friendly microbiological approaches used to restore cultural heritages, archaeological sites and wall paintings.

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  • 09 August 2020

    The book was inadvertently published with an incorrect affiliation of the corresponding author Amrita Kumari Panda in Chapter 8 as Department of Microbiology, Gogate Jogalekar College, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India. The affiliation has now been corrected as Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gahira Guru University, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India.

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  1. Department of Biotechnology, Sant Gahira Guru University, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India

    Amrita Kumari Panda

  2. Department of Botany, Polasara Science College, Ganjam, Odisha, India

    Rojita Mishra

  3. Department of Zoology, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India

    Satpal Singh Bisht

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Panda, A.K., Mishra, R., Bisht, S.S. (2020). Microbiological Tools for Cultural Heritage Conservation. In: Yadav, A., Rastegari, A., Gupta, V., Yadav, N. (eds) Microbial Biotechnology Approaches to Monuments of Cultural Heritage. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3401-0_8

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