A SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO PRESERVATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE - SIB SAGAR (ASSAM) CENTRALLY PROTECTED MONUMENT

Sibsagar monuments in Assam, a north-east state of India is large masonry structure built using sandstone, terracotta bricks, lime surkhi mortar/plaster, mud and tiles. The monuments have been exposed to decay for centuries, some time for millennia. Due to long period of exposing the monument, environmental change, the monuments are continuously deteriorated. In this article, it is discussed important weathering and deteriorating agents like as temperature, relative humidity, atmosphere, rain water, surface water, ground water, biological growth, and human vandalism along with a scientific approach to preservation of monuments. The efforts have been made that this approach to protection of the monument was significantly, weather resistance and good for health of the monuments.