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Technology has allowed researchers many more insights into the past in recent years and helped several surprising discoveries to be made. Now, experts in Japan have used infrared camera technology to discover eight masterpieces of Buddhist art in a famous temple. These long-lost paintings of saints may be over 1200 years old. A team of experts on Japanese art, including Noriaki Ajima of Hiroshima University and Yukari Takama of Osaka Kyoiku University, made the discoveries at Saimyoji temple, in Kora in the Prefecture of Shiga. The temple dates to at least the Kamakura period (12th and 13th century AD) and today it is used by the Tendai sect of Buddhism. Saimyoji temple is famous for its paintings and the fact