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Moscow (ST): Sevastopol Russian State University in the Crimea has announced the printing of a three-dimensional model of the ruins of Palmyra, which was damaged by the terrorist organizations' attacks.
Director of the Polytechnic Institute of the University Vasily Golovin said that the model reaches a length of five meters and consists of about fifty single panels that were printed on 3D printers, indicating that the printing process took more than three months and was completed in black and white, and it will be colored in other colors in Petersburg.
Sources at Sevastopol University announced earlier that the 3D model would be printed on the basis of images taken by university experts between 2016 and 2019 by drones on which cameras with vertical and side vision were installed.
Last August, the Directorate of Antiquities and Museums said that after the great destruction of the ancient city of Palmyra by the terrorist organization (ISIS), the Russian experts at the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Hermitage Museum undertook a three-dimensional documentation project.
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Homs, (ST)- The Ministry of Tourism has begun rehabilitation and restoration works on the historic building of the Visitor and Tourist Center in the archeological area of Palmyra in Homs countryside, which was damaged by the cowardly attacks of the terrorist organization "ISIS" before its defeat by the heroes of the Syrian Arab Army.
In a statement to SANA, director general of the Tourism Projects Implementation Authority at the Ministry of Tourism, Engineer Mohanna Skeiker, pointed out that this important tourist and archaeological project is part of the ministry’s plan to restore the glory of tourism in the historic city of Palmyra.
Among the rare and rich antiquities, which are found at the Classical Syrian Archaeology Department in the National Museum of Damascus, the statue of Princess Banyas, which dates back to the Roman era, is unique with its features that reflect the deep-rootedness and openness of the Syrian civilization.
Archaeologists called the bust , which is a bronze piece, “Golan’s Princess” , and according to the researcher Dr. Ali Al-Qayyem, it represents the greatness and splendor of Syrian beauty and one of the most beautiful archaeological Syrian bronze sculptures of all times.
The statue was found during the last excavation process carried out by the Syrian archaeological expeditions in the Golan in 1965, before the Israeli occupation. The statue was discovered in one of the orchards of the village of Banyas in the north of the occupied Syrian Golan, inside a sarcophagus.