academics and shipped to Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere in the early 20th century.]]> billeted here in the 1920s on the run from the Bolsheviks and filled their beautifully painted quarters with smoky cooking fires.]]> bracing for up to 1 million this year.]]> capacity indicated that as it was, the Mogao site could handle just 3,000 tourists per day - a number that seemed unrealistically low given the growing interest in the grottoes.]]> composition of the grotto paintings and the many threats to their survival - like sand intrusion and high humidity.]]> aspects of the religion.]]> decay are arriving in ever-greater numbers each year and threatening to undermine decades of painstaking conservation efforts.]]> authorities and the Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage worked to establish the China Principles - national guidelines for cultural heritage conservation and management.]]> cultural heritage authorities and the Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage worked to establish the China Principles - national guidelines for cultural heritage conservation and management.]]> conservation efforts.]]> deputy director of the Dunhuang Academy, the research with Getty on visitor capacity indicated that as it was, the Mogao site could handle just 3,000 tourists per day - a number that seemed unrealistically low given the growing interest in the grottoes.]]> curators have requested loans of items from the British Museum, the British Library and other European institutions that house many artifacts removed from Mogao in the early 20th century by academics and explorers.]]> adapted at other sites, both in China and elsewhere in the world," Wang said.]]> charged with preserving the caves, and their longtime partners at the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute (which has been working at Mogao since the late 1980s), the site's treasures are getting a fresh shot at survival - and even more international exposure.]]>