Egyptian Inscriptions Saved by Software
Today, I had read an article and never noticed that how good to live in this digital age. Never thought that how powerful a software can be. The hieroglyphics engraved on the columns and walls of Egyptian temples are in danger of washing away. Groundwater is constantly seeping into the stone that holds the precious inscriptions and Egyptologists just can’t work fast enough to trace them by hand.
The solution proposed by scientific experts? Dump the tracing paper and pens and go digital!
Researchers working at the temple of Amun-Renear Luxor in Egypat are hoping that a simple software tool, developed by a team at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Strasbourg, France, will speed up the process.
Instead of tracing each image by hand, the software will transform photographs of the objects taken from different angles into a flattened, head-on image that will be stored in a searchable database.
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