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By Heather Kelly @heatherkelly
nimrud iraq
When Ben Kacyra was growing up in Mosul, Iraq, he would travel to the
outskirts of the city with his father and visit the ancient Assyrian city of
Nimrud.
“He’d take me by the hand and we’d go walk through the ruins,” said
Kacyra. “My dad being a history buff, he used to know a lot of the
sites and he used to tell us all about them.”
In March, ISIS fighters bulldozed the 3,000-year-old pre-Islamic site,
which contained shrines and statues the group considers heretical.
Kacyra, 75, dedicates his life to digitally preserving and documenting
heritage sites like Nimrud using 3D-scanning technology.
His nonprofit CyArk is rushing to preserve important archaeological
sites in Syria, Iraq and other conflict zones in the Middle East. This
week, it announced that it’s teaming up with the International Council
of Monuments and Sites for an emergency response called Project Anqa.
They’ve already completed a scan of the first site, the Ziggurat of Ur
in Iraq, and are considering the historical center of Damascus in
Syria.
CyArk creates 3D renderings by using laser scanners that can document
sites down to the millimeter level. They bounce millions of points of
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