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TOMSK, January 9 – RIA Tomsk. Staff of Tomsk State University
(TSU) plans to release a movie in 3D about archeological excavations in the
Tuva Valley of the Kings, the Head of Laboratory "Artefact" Olga
Zaytseva reported to RIA Tomsk.
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The Valley of the Kings is a system
of burials and cult objects near Kyzyl (the capital of Tuva), archaeological
monuments are reffered to the I millennium B.C. – eras of bronze and iron. The
Valley of the Kings became world famous thanks to excavation of elite early
Scythian barrows of Arzhan-1 and Arzhan-2.
The press service of the higher
education institution reported that specialists of the State Hermitage and
Institute of Archeology of RAS (Moscow) investigated the funeral and funeral
Ching-Tay-1 and Arzhan-5 complexes. Experts of "Artefact" carried out
high-precision shooting of more than 20 square kilometers of the valley that
will allow to create a 3D model of all valley, separate barrows and burials in
the future.
"Creation of popular scientific
3D-movies is in plans of the laboratory. And we began to shoot such film in the
Valley of the Kings this year. We have got used that only the entertaining film
is shot in such format, and here is scientific cinema", – Zaytseva told.
She specified that it is about the
full movie where the scenes shot from UAVs, and also the digitized
three-dimensional models of archeological finds will be used. "It is not just
rollers and models - it is the coherent story, the movie, where people tell
about excavation. And we will let it out in 2017", – the interlocutor of
the agency noted.
Earlier it was reported that the TSU
laboratory "Artefact" is one of the first in Russia which began to
use three-dimensional technologies for archeology. The main directions of its
work are scanning of monuments of archeology by means of unmanned aerial
vehicles and creation of three-dimensional models of archeological finds and
museum pieces.
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Сотрудник лаборатории "Артефакт" на съемках 3D-фильма