The academics will surround endangered artefacts with 3D cameras, allowing them to eventually rebuild anything destroyed by Isis using 3D printing technology.
The institute is working with the heritage body Unesco to gather five million images of antiquities ranging from Mesopotamian palaces to handfuls of coins and pottery by the end of the year.
The project is a race against time as Isis tears through the region with bulldozers and sledgehammers, destroying anything they deem to be heretical. Earlier this week the group destroyed the 2,000-year-old temple of Baal Shamin in Palmyra in Syria.
Discussing the spate of destruction, Roger Michel, the institute’s Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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