For thousands of years, humankind has strived to leave behind something that would withstand the ravages of time. They carved their names in stone, built temples and palaces, adorned city walls with paintings and inscriptions, and recorded the details of their lives and beliefs in manuscripts. These relics, with their scars, cracks, and missing parts, served as tangible witnesses to bygone civilizations.
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But wars, earthquakes, storms, natural disasters, and theft have not always left this testament a chance to survive. In many parts of the Arab world, preserving endangered heritage has become linked to the ability of institutions and researchers to document what remains before it suffers further damage.
With the development of laser scanning, photogrammetry techniques and 3D modeling, it has become possible to convert the artifact into accurate digital data that preserves its dimensions and details, and allows for its study and reuse even if the original has been damaged.
Today, artificial intelligence adds another layer to this process, as it can analyze images, documents, and surveys and suggest scenarios for missing parts. But this capability necessitates a fundamental distinction between what we actually documented, what we inferred, and what the algorithm suggested.
The center focuses on using artificial intelligence and advanced digital technologies in preserving heritage and antiquities, studying and introducing museum collections and archaeological sites and engaging the public in them, in addition to developing digital frameworks that help link artifacts to the sites they belong to and their historical contexts.
This makes the digital model not just a three-dimensional image for display, but it can become part of a larger system for collecting, studying and reusing data in heritage research.
the importance of digitization begins with protecting the information itself, because the original pieces remain exposed to various factors of damage. She says, "The real things are outside and are exposed to weather fluctuations, climate change, looting, and so on. When we scan an artifact with 3D technology and save it digitally, we have an accurate copy that is protected from these risks."
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