Evaluation of Deterioration and Proposed Restoration of the Limestone, White Monastery—Sohag, Egypt

Abstract

By studying the phenomena of limestone built from the White Monastery in Sohag Governorate damage where this study discusses the results of the ana-lyzes and the study's petrographic limestone, we can study and discuss what has been done to analyze X-ray diffraction and X-ray flourecence, and by scan-ning electron microscope in order to determine the cause of the damage and to study the properties of limestone to choose the most appropriate treatment methods especially the internal structure affected by the environmental condi-tions surrounding the private and increasing ground water levels along with the use of the most appropriate ways to buffer water to conserve the limestone of the environmental factors that damage it.