(Tom Coghlan’s and Oliver Moody’s article appeared in the Times, Middle East, 8/28.)
A team of digital-age “monuments men” are to launch an unprecedented fightback against the destruction of ancient sites in the Middle East by Islamic State.
Archaeologists at Oxford and Harvard will flood the region with 3D cameras in a plan to create a full digital record of every threatened artefact.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article4540560.ece
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