Modern methods of preserving cultural heritage discussed in St. Petersburg

Modern methods of preserving cultural heritage were discussed in St. Petersburg at an international conference, the largest in recent years. Representatives of Turkey, Serbia, Italy, Myanmar and other states took part in it, including via video link. The focus is on saving monuments destroyed as a result of hostilities and natural disasters. In particular, the possibility of creating an international digital archive of cultural heritage objects was discussed. St. Petersburg archaeologists told their colleagues about their main projects – a 3D model of Chersonesos and an exact copy of the ancient part of Palmyra. Today, technologies allow remote analytical research with guaranteed accuracy and reliability of results. “Science is developing, technologies are developing and methods of preserving cultural heritage are changing. And our digital methods are now being put forward in the first place, thanks to which we can have a strong evidence base, said Natalia Solovyova, director of the Center for Rescue Archaeology of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Now one of the most important things is the full documentation of what is, which, by the way, the Institute for the History of Material Culture did for Syria. All the monuments of Christian Syria are carefully documented, the whole of Palmyra is documented. Now technology allows you to do this, so that when the situation changes, you can accept and implement what they decide to restore, restore, said Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director General of the State Hermitage Museum.

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