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applications. Among all of them, which our ancestor left behind, nothing is more evocative and auspicious than their signature as a form of architecture, sculpture, coins, epigraphs, paleograph, treasure, artifacts. Which introduced the story of past. However, flourishment of our past is depend upon this thing that how do we conserve the artifacts of our nostalgia because these opulent heritages are the mirror of our precious history.