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Restoration work on 1,300-year-old murals in Qusayr Amra have shed new light on early Islamic art as conservationists continue work to save one of the last surviving examples of Islamic visual paintings in the world.

The revelations have come as part of a multiyear project by the Rome-based Institute for Conservation and Restoration (ICR), the World Monuments Fund (WMF) and the Jordanian Department of Antiquities to stabilise and restore the bathhouse’s frescoes, which have blackened due to years of erosion, flooding, graffiti and misguided conservation efforts in the early and mid-20th century.