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Monday, June 15
June 15, 2009

Mites are to blame for damage to a 1,400-year-old city wall at China’s Hanguang Entrance Remains Museum in Xi’an. The pests feed on bacteria, and have eaten the wall from the inside out. The wall has been treated with an insecticide that has also been sprayed on China’s terracotta warriors.   Here’s a photograph of the […]

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