TheSilkRoadin NorthwestofChinais the hometown of rock-color paintings. The originaltrace of skills of Japanese rock-color paintings can befoundinDunhuang and Kizil.
Mr Irvine will return this month with golf course architect Martin Ebert and agronomist Alistair Beggs, to trace the original greens and produce a plan for the restoration.
This, he believes, will make it possible to work out which country, even which factory, supplied the original chemicals for the mustard gas - it will not be possible to trace the source of the nerve agents.