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A Monumental Task

How does one safely clean Mount Rushmore? Or the 3,300-year-old stone statues that compose the Colossi of Memnon, in upper Egypt?

Those are just some of the questions the German industrial-cleaning firm Kärcher has grappled with during almost 30 years of donating its services to clean monuments worldwide.

In May,...

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