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Challenges, Strategies and High-Tech Applications for Saving the Cultural Heritage of SyriaProceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016
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Challenges, Strategies and High-Tech Applications for Saving the Cultural Heritage of Syria, pp. 165-178, 2022/03/24
Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th ICAANE in Vienna, April 2016
During international dissents and conflicts, history is of no concern and heritage is not important. Wars leavedevastating marks on monuments and ancient cities and cause irreplaceable loss to global cultural treasures The GreatTemple of Bel in Palmyra was one of the latest (but not last) and most painful of such losses Before being blown up bythe jihadists of ISIS, the Temple of Bel was arguably the most renowned building in Syria It was the relic with whichPalmyra was associated It is to be hoped that its virtual reconstruction and preservation as a legacy in digital culturalheritage may provide some healing for the lost temple in memories The Great Temple of Bel can be virtually restoredto its former condition in Roman times By using information from ancient texts, lithographs, architectural drawingsand photographs as well as digital images, virtual models of the temple are created with the objective of restoring thepast sense of the architecture and the place.
Keywords: Temple of Bel; Palmyra; virtual reality; digital cultural heritage