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The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM; http://www.iccrom.org) was established in 1959. Its creation was agreed upon at the 9th UNESCO General Conference in New Delhi in 1956 at a time of mounting interest in the protection and preservation of cultural heritage and in the spirit of the 1954 Hague Convention, the first UNESCO Convention on the protection of cultural heritage in the event of armed conflict. In line with its mandate to promote the conservation of all types of cultural heritage, both movable and immovable, ICCROM has always considered archaeology as one of its most substantial fields of interest. Such a tenet is reflected in the variety of professional archaeologists who have directed the organization over the years (Cevat Erder, Nicholas Stanley-Price, Mounir Bouchenaki, and Stefano De Caro). Harold Plenderleith, a British chemist and former Keeper of the Restoration Laboratory at the...
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Jokilehto, J. 2011. ICCROM and the conservation of cultural heritage: A history of the organization’s first 50 years, 1959–2009. Rome: ICCROM.
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De Caro, S. (2020). International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) (Conservation and Preservation). In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_552
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