Restoration and conservation of antique metals

These antique metals that have been the source of this thesis study are important enough to be named as historical ages in societies' social and economical developments. In our country's geography that has twelve thousand years' cultural heritage,nearly in every excavation center,metal finds uncovered. Dark points in history's of many antique cities are illuminated through the certain data that is obtained from metal work finds.In this situations, protecting this heritage and taking precautions to carry on these works to future generations emerges as an obligation of our country that has such a rich culural heritage.As an individual, this is our national and moral duty.In this duty and responsibilities we should do what we need to do. I am interested in this subject because of my experiences about jewelry techniques, when I want to prepare the thesis, I see that this subject is very deep and it is related to many disciplines, and this excited me further.Because of my interest in traditional metal working techniques, I include in my study copper, bronze , lead , tin , gold and silver that are used in old ages. I believe that we are in need of places that has the equipments to carry on these studies with different disciplines in order to carry these archeological metal productions that are one of our portable cultural essets to new generations and also to prevent dissappearing of them.