Ten pages, selected from a total of 127, of the last manuscript of Master i Margarita, written
by Bulgakov in the last four years of his life, have been analysed in order to harvest and …

We describe here a modern tool for exploring documents pertaining to the world Cultural
Heritage while avoiding their contamination or damage. Known under the acronym EVA, it …

Introduction: Capture of proteins and metabolites from Cultural Heritage (paintings,
manuscripts, parchment etc.) has been done in the past via surface scraping and erasing, a …

This chapter aims to develop a strategy for identifying proteins in painting binding media
using proteomics methodology. A preliminary extraction of proteins was realized and …

A novel way for exploring the world's cultural heritage in the absence of damage or
contamination (such as removing pigments in paintings or chipping away pieces of bones) …

It is well established that the ink pigment used for writing the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) is
mainly composed of carbon soot. The ink's binder however has yet to be securely identified …

Identification and characterization of ancient proteins still require technical developments
towards non-invasiveness, sensitivity, versatility and ease of use of the analyses. We report …

We demonstrate here the possibility of identifying proteins trapped in few milligrams of the
clay matrix of a 1200− 1400 AD Iñupiat potsherd fragment from Point Barrow, Alaska, by a …

In recent years, proteomics procedures have become increasingly popular for the
characterization of proteinaceous materials in ancient samples of several cultural heritage …

Around the end of XIII century (at the time of young Marco Polo's first trip to China at the court
of Khubilai Khan in Khan Baliq) a pocket Bible was delivered by a Franciscan friar to the …