TOMSK, Jun 6 – RIA Tomsk. The rector of Tomsk State University (TSU) Eduard Galazhinsky and the CEO of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky signed the cooperation agreement within which specialists of the organizations plan to develop landscape archeology and to work on creation of three-dimensional models of artifacts, the press service of TSU reports on Wednesday.
Earlier it was reported that specialists of the Hermitage and Institute of Archeology of RAS (Moscow) investigated the funerary-memorial complexes located in Valley of the Kings in Tyva in 2016 and 2017. During the expeditions archeologists of Artefakt laboratory of TSU carried out aerial photography of more than 20 square kilometers of Valley of the Kings to create a 3D model of the valley, separate barrows and burials.
As the press service of TSU reports, the university and the Hermitage plan joint archaeological researches with use of computer technologies within the signed cooperation agreement, also they realize projects on digitization of objects of cultural heritage.
"Joint researches will allow to develop such direction as landscape archeology. It allows to investigate a fundamental problem of interaction of the nature and society, to see how the unique cultural landscape was created in the Turan-Uyuk Basin (Tyva – Ed.) which is characterized by very high concentration of funeral and funeral complexes", – the press service quotes the head of the laboratory of TSU Olga Zaytseva.
It is added that it is also planned to continue work on creation of a three-dimensional geographic information system of Valley of the Kings within the agreement."The received results are valuable not only from the scientific point of view, but will be demanded in modern museum practices. For example, 3D models and digital archives can become a basis of interactive multimedia exhibitions and the virtual museums", – the press service adds.
Earlier it was also reported that laboratory of TSU "Artefact" id one of the first in Russia which begun to use three-dimensional technologies for archeology. The main directions of its work is scanning of monuments of archeology by means of unmanned aerial vehicles and creation of three-dimensional models of archeological finds and museum pieces.