However, a significant amount of conservation goes into discovering and preserving the past.
For a team of archeologists in Egypt, the last five years have been a cleaning mission.
The Temple of Esna is south of Luxor in Egypt.
Deities on boats, Orion, Sothis/Sirius, and Anukis, create a New Years' scene, while above them the sky goddess Nut swallows the evening sun. (Photo:Ahmed Amin/Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA)))
Answers may be slow however, as it took the 30-person team five years to uncover the ceiling.
The ceiling has seven thematic sections.
That point was New Year’s Day in ancient Egypt and also heralded the annual flooding of the Nile.
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The goddess Anukis, also depicted, caused the Nile floodwaters to retreat about 100 days after this event.
However, there is still more work to be done in his historic site.
The completion of the ceiling restoration marks the projects first and perhaps most important milestone, Professor Leitz said.
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