A Study towards Ancient and Modern Preservation Techniques of Historical Manuscripts against Deterioration

Abstract Our precious resources like literary, linguistic, artistic and cultural heritage are usually engraved by means of manuscripts. It is very important to preserve the historical manuscripts which reveal the information about the civilized past. All ancient manuscripts are accessible in any one of the forms like stone and metal carvings, palm leaf manuscripts, paper manuscripts. However, because of many factors available historical documents are found in degraded form. Historical documents contain important information, so we need to restore them and preserve for our future followers. There are hundreds and thousands of historical documents available. But not all available ones are in good condition. Researchers need to find modern tools and techniques in coming era to preserve this information from deterioration for our followers. This research paper is a drop of such study and pays an attempt to summarize various forms of such techniques available to restore old historical documents.