Historical monuments are considered as one of the key aspects for modern communities. Unfortunately, due to a variety of factors the monuments get damaged. One may think of digitally undoing the damage to the monuments by inpainting, a process to fill-in missing regions in an image. A majority of inpainting techniques reported in the literature require manual selection of the regions to be inpa...

In this study, subsidence patterns in the Historical Centre of Hanoi, Vietnam are mapped using the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technique, with particular emphasis on the stability of ancient monuments, historical buildings and archaeological sectors. Due to the small and scattered characteristics of these structures, not only is a comprehensive coverage of radar targets nee...

A number of mural paintings and building materials from monuments located in central and south Europe are characterized by the presence of an intriguing rosy discolouration phenomenon. Although some similarities were observed among the bacterial and archaeal microbiota detected in these monuments, their origin and nature is still unknown. In order to get a complete overview of this biodeteriora...

Technology has allowed new insights and creativity into the learning and teaching process and also enables to try out in a much more flexible, dynamic way other learning experiences. This constitutes in itself a more engaging role for teachers as well as students helping them to explore and create new areas, opening up, at the same time, new perspectives into the process and maximizing the avai...

In a recent issue of this journal, Peter Marcuse (1998) strongly criticizes the current reconstruction of Berlin as the new German capital. Marcuse joins a growing number of prominent intellectuals and politicians in speaking out against a massive Holocaust memorial proposed for the center of Berlin, expressing the impossibility of representing and explaining a monstrous historical period throu...

One of the common monuments in the Sassanid era was the square dome. Interestingly, corners and parts of the square dome were always geometrically proportionate to each other. Square domes have been mainly studied in terms of their historical background as well as the materials used. The present research, however, aimed to examine the geometric proportions governing the formation of square dome...

Several historical monument buildings in the city of Gorontalo with important colonial features have been designated as cultural reserves. The unavailability information media that can be accessed by visitors so do not know detail about place visited, implementing augmented reality (AR) technology access to using multimedia development life cycle (MDLC) methods, freely and real time, presenting...