#culturalheritagesites — Public Fediverse posts

The Portugal News: Portugal launches ‘Digital Noah’s Ark’ to preserve cultural heritage . “Work is underway on 3D surveying of 35 historical properties located throughout mainland Portugal, including monuments and archaeological sites classified as National Monuments or Properties of Public Interest.”

The Portugal News: Portugal launches ‘Digital Noah’s Ark’ to preserve cultural heritage . “Work is underway on 3D surveying of 35 historical properties located throughout mainland Portugal, including monuments and archaeological sites classified as National Monuments or Properties of Public Interest.”

The Portugal News: Portugal launches ‘Digital Noah’s Ark’ to preserve cultural heritage . “Work is underway on 3D surveying of 35 historical properties located throughout mainland Portugal, including monuments and archaeological sites classified as National Monuments or Properties of Public Interest.”

The Portugal News: Portugal launches ‘Digital Noah’s Ark’ to preserve cultural heritage . “Work is underway on 3D surveying of 35 historical properties located throughout mainland Portugal, including monuments and archaeological sites classified as National Monuments or Properties of Public Interest.”

The Portugal News: Portugal launches ‘Digital Noah’s Ark’ to preserve cultural heritage . “Work is underway on 3D surveying of 35 historical properties located throughout mainland Portugal, including monuments and archaeological sites classified as National Monuments or Properties of Public Interest.”

AFP: Fearing return to war, Iran conservationists shore up damaged heritage sites. “As fears of renewed conflict hang over Iran, conservationists are shoring up battered historic sites and taking stock of the damage caused by the war with the United States and Israel, though experts warn some repairs could take years.”

Hürriyet Daily News: ‘Digital Istanbul’ project brings QR-coded history to centuries-old schools . “The project had previously focused on mosques and tombs but now includes schools, madrasas, lodges, churches and synagogues. QR codes placed at these sites allow visitors and students to access written and audio content in five languages — Turkish, English, German, Russian and Arabic — […]

Hürriyet Daily News: ‘Digital Istanbul’ project brings QR-coded history to centuries-old schools . “The project had previously focused on mosques and tombs but now includes schools, madrasas, lodges, churches and synagogues. QR codes placed at these sites allow visitors and students to access written and audio content in five languages — Turkish, English, German, Russian and Arabic — […]

Hürriyet Daily News: ‘Digital Istanbul’ project brings QR-coded history to centuries-old schools . “The project had previously focused on mosques and tombs but now includes schools, madrasas, lodges, churches and synagogues. QR codes placed at these sites allow visitors and students to access written and audio content in five languages — Turkish, English, German, Russian and Arabic — […]

Hürriyet Daily News: ‘Digital Istanbul’ project brings QR-coded history to centuries-old schools . “The project had previously focused on mosques and tombs but now includes schools, madrasas, lodges, churches and synagogues. QR codes placed at these sites allow visitors and students to access written and audio content in five languages — Turkish, English, German, Russian and Arabic — […]

Hürriyet Daily News: ‘Digital Istanbul’ project brings QR-coded history to centuries-old schools . “The project had previously focused on mosques and tombs but now includes schools, madrasas, lodges, churches and synagogues. QR codes placed at these sites allow visitors and students to access written and audio content in five languages — Turkish, English, German, Russian and Arabic — […]

Asia Business Daily: National Heritage Repair History Database to Be Opened to the Public on May 6. “Previously, this information was accessible only to experts and repair technicians, but the scope of access will now be expanded to allow the general public to utilize it. HBIM [Heritage Building Information Modeling] is a digital technology that integrates management of architectural heritage […]

Asia Business Daily: National Heritage Repair History Database to Be Opened to the Public on May 6. “Previously, this information was accessible only to experts and repair technicians, but the scope of access will now be expanded to allow the general public to utilize it. HBIM [Heritage Building Information Modeling] is a digital technology that integrates management of architectural heritage […]

Asia Business Daily: National Heritage Repair History Database to Be Opened to the Public on May 6. “Previously, this information was accessible only to experts and repair technicians, but the scope of access will now be expanded to allow the general public to utilize it. HBIM [Heritage Building Information Modeling] is a digital technology that integrates management of architectural heritage […]

Asia Business Daily: National Heritage Repair History Database to Be Opened to the Public on May 6. “Previously, this information was accessible only to experts and repair technicians, but the scope of access will now be expanded to allow the general public to utilize it. HBIM [Heritage Building Information Modeling] is a digital technology that integrates management of architectural heritage […]

Asia Business Daily: National Heritage Repair History Database to Be Opened to the Public on May 6. “Previously, this information was accessible only to experts and repair technicians, but the scope of access will now be expanded to allow the general public to utilize it. HBIM [Heritage Building Information Modeling] is a digital technology that integrates management of architectural heritage […]

PetaPixel: Antigravity Is Preserving Historical Sites in 3D Using its 360° Drone. “Antigravity has announced Project Eternal, a global initiative unveiled following the International Day for Monuments and Sites, aimed at preserving cultural heritage through advanced imaging and Gaussian Splatting. The project brings together drone technology, panoramic capture systems, and 3D reconstruction […]

PetaPixel: Antigravity Is Preserving Historical Sites in 3D Using its 360° Drone. “Antigravity has announced Project Eternal, a global initiative unveiled following the International Day for Monuments and Sites, aimed at preserving cultural heritage through advanced imaging and Gaussian Splatting. The project brings together drone technology, panoramic capture systems, and 3D reconstruction […]

PetaPixel: Antigravity Is Preserving Historical Sites in 3D Using its 360° Drone. “Antigravity has announced Project Eternal, a global initiative unveiled following the International Day for Monuments and Sites, aimed at preserving cultural heritage through advanced imaging and Gaussian Splatting. The project brings together drone technology, panoramic capture systems, and 3D reconstruction […]

PetaPixel: Antigravity Is Preserving Historical Sites in 3D Using its 360° Drone. “Antigravity has announced Project Eternal, a global initiative unveiled following the International Day for Monuments and Sites, aimed at preserving cultural heritage through advanced imaging and Gaussian Splatting. The project brings together drone technology, panoramic capture systems, and 3D reconstruction […]

PetaPixel: Antigravity Is Preserving Historical Sites in 3D Using its 360° Drone. “Antigravity has announced Project Eternal, a global initiative unveiled following the International Day for Monuments and Sites, aimed at preserving cultural heritage through advanced imaging and Gaussian Splatting. The project brings together drone technology, panoramic capture systems, and 3D reconstruction […]

Hoptown Chronicle: Murray’s Penny Grocery Museum, a preserved 1930s Kentucky country store, to reopen for tours . “For nearly 20 years, the Penny Grocery Museum was owned and operated by the late Murray local Johnny Gingles, a passionate collector of vintage consumer goods who believed in the importance of historic preservation. After his father’s death in January, Hunter Gingles took the […]

National Trust for Historic Preservation: Saving America’s First Black Incorporated Town. “Brooklyn, Illinois is also the first incorporated Black town in America. It was an early stop on the Underground Railroad, a burgeoning community for free and enslaved Black Americans, and home to the first Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in the Midwest. In later years, it […]

National Trust for Historic Preservation: Saving America’s First Black Incorporated Town. “Brooklyn, Illinois is also the first incorporated Black town in America. It was an early stop on the Underground Railroad, a burgeoning community for free and enslaved Black Americans, and home to the first Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in the Midwest. In later years, it […]

National Trust for Historic Preservation: Saving America’s First Black Incorporated Town. “Brooklyn, Illinois is also the first incorporated Black town in America. It was an early stop on the Underground Railroad, a burgeoning community for free and enslaved Black Americans, and home to the first Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in the Midwest. In later years, it […]

National Trust for Historic Preservation: Saving America’s First Black Incorporated Town. “Brooklyn, Illinois is also the first incorporated Black town in America. It was an early stop on the Underground Railroad, a burgeoning community for free and enslaved Black Americans, and home to the first Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in the Midwest. In later years, it […]

Spotted in my RSS feeds: African Traditional Architecture. From the front page: “We are building a comprehensive database of Indigenous African architecture from pre-colonial Africa to date. Our goal is to preserve the knowledge, and inspire future generations to live sustainably.”

Digital Meets Culture: Webinar on the state of 3D Digitisation in Cultural Heritage. “…the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage: Methodologies, Technologies & Best Practices webinar is dedicated to presenting the results of a groundbreaking global survey carried out in the context of Heritalise project to exame the current state of the art in 3D digitisation of cultural heritage.” Registration […]

RFI: Notre-Dame sees record number of visitors, one year on from reopening. “On 8 December, 2024, Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened its doors after five years of restoration work, following a devastating fire in April 2019. Since then, visitor numbers have reached a record high – making Notre-Dame the most visited monument in France in 2025.”

Asia Business Daily: 680,000 National Heritage Digital Records Now Open… AI Answers Archaeology Questions. “The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on December 30 that it has completely revamped the ‘National Heritage Digital Service’ website and will additionally release 200,000 digital records.”

Asia Business Daily: 680,000 National Heritage Digital Records Now Open… AI Answers Archaeology Questions. “The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on December 30 that it has completely revamped the ‘National Heritage Digital Service’ website and will additionally release 200,000 digital records.”

Asia Business Daily: 680,000 National Heritage Digital Records Now Open… AI Answers Archaeology Questions. “The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on December 30 that it has completely revamped the ‘National Heritage Digital Service’ website and will additionally release 200,000 digital records.”

Asia Business Daily: 680,000 National Heritage Digital Records Now Open… AI Answers Archaeology Questions. “The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on December 30 that it has completely revamped the ‘National Heritage Digital Service’ website and will additionally release 200,000 digital records.”

Asia Business Daily: 680,000 National Heritage Digital Records Now Open… AI Answers Archaeology Questions. “The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on December 30 that it has completely revamped the ‘National Heritage Digital Service’ website and will additionally release 200,000 digital records.”

Associated Press: Trump sued by preservationists seeking reviews and congressional approval for ballroom project. “The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded group, is asking the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s White House ballroom addition, which already has involved razing the East Wing, until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, environmental […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/13/associated-press-trump-sued-by-preservationists-seeking-reviews-and-congressional-approval-for-ballroom-project/

Associated Press: Trump sued by preservationists seeking reviews and congressional approval for ballroom project. “The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded group, is asking the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s White House ballroom addition, which already has involved razing the East Wing, until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, environmental […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/13/associated-press-trump-sued-by-preservationists-seeking-reviews-and-congressional-approval-for-ballroom-project/

Associated Press: Trump sued by preservationists seeking reviews and congressional approval for ballroom project. “The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded group, is asking the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s White House ballroom addition, which already has involved razing the East Wing, until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, environmental […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/13/associated-press-trump-sued-by-preservationists-seeking-reviews-and-congressional-approval-for-ballroom-project/

Associated Press: Trump sued by preservationists seeking reviews and congressional approval for ballroom project. “The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded group, is asking the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s White House ballroom addition, which already has involved razing the East Wing, until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, environmental […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/13/associated-press-trump-sued-by-preservationists-seeking-reviews-and-congressional-approval-for-ballroom-project/

Associated Press: Trump sued by preservationists seeking reviews and congressional approval for ballroom project. “The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a privately funded group, is asking the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s White House ballroom addition, which already has involved razing the East Wing, until it goes through comprehensive design reviews, environmental […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/13/associated-press-trump-sued-by-preservationists-seeking-reviews-and-congressional-approval-for-ballroom-project/

Axios: Nina Simone’s childhood home restored in North Carolina. “The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announced in November that restoration work on Simone’s childhood home in Tryon is complete, following a nearly decade-long fight to protect the site.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/05/axios-nina-simones-childhood-home-restored-in-north-carolina/

Free Press (North Macedonia): The digital collection of inscriptions and stories “Prometheus” represents a significant source of information about the past. “Through this collection, the general public has the opportunity to become acquainted with part of the epigraphic heritage of the Republic of North Macedonia…and to experience in a different way the life, culture and history of the local […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/free-press-the-digital-collection-of-inscriptions-and-stories-prometheus-represents-a-significant-source-of-information-about-the-past/

Free Press (North Macedonia): The digital collection of inscriptions and stories “Prometheus” represents a significant source of information about the past. “Through this collection, the general public has the opportunity to become acquainted with part of the epigraphic heritage of the Republic of North Macedonia…and to experience in a different way the life, culture and history of the local […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/free-press-the-digital-collection-of-inscriptions-and-stories-prometheus-represents-a-significant-source-of-information-about-the-past/

Free Press (North Macedonia): The digital collection of inscriptions and stories “Prometheus” represents a significant source of information about the past. “Through this collection, the general public has the opportunity to become acquainted with part of the epigraphic heritage of the Republic of North Macedonia…and to experience in a different way the life, culture and history of the local […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/free-press-the-digital-collection-of-inscriptions-and-stories-prometheus-represents-a-significant-source-of-information-about-the-past/

Free Press (North Macedonia): The digital collection of inscriptions and stories “Prometheus” represents a significant source of information about the past. “Through this collection, the general public has the opportunity to become acquainted with part of the epigraphic heritage of the Republic of North Macedonia…and to experience in a different way the life, culture and history of the local […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/free-press-the-digital-collection-of-inscriptions-and-stories-prometheus-represents-a-significant-source-of-information-about-the-past/

Free Press (North Macedonia): The digital collection of inscriptions and stories “Prometheus” represents a significant source of information about the past. “Through this collection, the general public has the opportunity to become acquainted with part of the epigraphic heritage of the Republic of North Macedonia…and to experience in a different way the life, culture and history of the local […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/12/01/free-press-the-digital-collection-of-inscriptions-and-stories-prometheus-represents-a-significant-source-of-information-about-the-past/

Somerset Live: Tiny Somerset village bombarded by lorries as residents beg council for help. “Chair of Lullington Parish Meeting Gus Colquhoun said the trouble started around six months ago when Google Maps started advertising the village as a shortcut to Frome…. Since then, lorries have gotten stuck and been forced to reverse back through the village. Meanwhile, Grade II listed walls have […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/26/somerset-live-tiny-somerset-village-bombarded-by-lorries-as-residents-beg-council-for-help/

Cowboy State Daily: Wyoming Archaeologists Cheer Utah Woman’s Sentencing For Vandalizing Petroglyphs . “A woman was sentenced Monday to pay nearly $15,000 in restitution and serve 12 months of probation after being convicted of defacing petroglyphs at a historic site in southern Utah. Daniela Ganassim Ericksen of Ivins, Utah, was arrested in November 2024 on felony charges for damaging the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/22/cowboy-state-daily-wyoming-archaeologists-cheer-utah-womans-sentencing-for-vandalizing-petroglyphs/

CBC: Old caves yield new secrets from Canadians who went over the top at Vimy Ridge. “A hidden archive of art and last thoughts created by Canadian soldiers potentially facing their last moments before the battle of Vimy Ridge has emerged from the soft chalk tunnels beneath the battlefield more than a century after they were created. Thanks to new technology and colour of the delicate tunnel […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/10/cbc-old-caves-yield-new-secrets-from-canadians-who-went-over-the-top-at-vimy-ridge/

Vinetur: Champagne’s Billion-Bottle Cellars Get 3D Digital Archive in Landmark Preservation Effort. “The Champagne region is preparing for a significant event on Friday, November 7, in Reims. The Mission Coteaux, Maisons et Caves de Champagne will host a charity dinner to support the launch of the CELLARS project. This initiative aims to create a 3D digital archive of the historic Champagne […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/vinetur-champagnes-billion-bottle-cellars-get-3d-digital-archive-in-landmark-preservation-effort/

Ukrinform: Nearly 1,600 cultural heritage sites destroyed or damaged in Ukraine since war started. “As of September 25, 2025, as many as 1,599 cultural heritage sites and 2,415 cultural infrastructure facilities in Ukraine have been destroyed or damaged as a result of Russia’s full-scale aggression. That is according to the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine, Ukrinform […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/06/ukrinform-nearly-1600-cultural-heritage-sites-destroyed-or-damaged-in-ukraine-since-war-started/