P taking issue with the Technological Advancement is rapid motion are just so rapid its almost impossible to keep up in the space of a lifetime. We have discovered for thousands of new sites from a range of different periods. Via the tanker announcers to shop in the focus of our inquiry and pinpoint exactly where to befall my day. In archaeology state of the Art Technology sometimes assumes the guise of an antiquated handcart. While archaeologists route boys in and rose and shot set up their equipment on a meadow their colleagues nearby are preparing a device that does look more high tech. The geomagnetic apparatus is so heavy it has to be towed by a vehicle both devices do the same thing only this one is larger and can survey a wider area. A group of german an irish archaeologists have met up at the old church at screen a 15th century site steeped in mysticism but the church ruin is almost young compared to the an ancient monuments the top the surrounding area. Northwest of dublin the hill of screen is located opposite islands cultural treasure the hill of tara a millennia old place of assembly. The region is also home to giant megalithic tombs unique monuments built around 3000 b. C. By people who left nothing behind but their graves. A digital reconstruction lens an impression of the graves interiors many built in alignment with astronomical events. The archaeologists dragged the census across the meadow to determine what lies beneath the surface. Is finished on this device is to me just wide and equipped with 5 sensors so you can cover 2. 00 to 3. 00 actors a day with a device like this so its a fast way of collecting and evaluating archaeological data. And equipped with 16 senses their colleagues magnetometer is even more effective in gathering archaeological evidence that humans were going to so we need to be careful here because if we swap the cables then the sensors will transmit the wrong positions but thats why we do a final check to see that everythings working so the proof of this or this from so that the team is scouting for traces of ancient life underground without the intervention of a shovel its a noninvasive technique called prospects and we. Have been doing it now hooking up the geomagnetic device to the computer. The computer has the task of recording all the measurement data and showing us where we have to prospect even when we are driving across the terrain invicta over to. The 0. 16 a device is used to take g. M. Magnetic measurements of the ground. And a lot of rain but really trying to figure out. The landscape harbors a history that began thousands of years ago the archaeologists Job Description calls the knowledge not just of history but technology to. And today it helps if they dont mind being followed by curious horses we dont know exactly where the foxes found it and we also want to know that or more about the history prior to the earliest documentary sources because we have some reference to say from the the 8th century in the 10th century referring to the telescreen being the place of birth. It was called macross and showers are exact position. With the help of g. P. S. Data the archaeologists can steer their vehicle across the meadow with the precision they need to generate a comprehensive ground image. The sensors drag in behind their vehicle measure the earths Magnetic Field which lies underground like an invisible vial the presence of walsall grades alters the pattern of magnetism in the soil. And that is exactly what the senses can measure the computer registers these disturbances to reveal a long forgotten structure a shadow of the past. 1700 kilometers further east in berlin work is underway on a different type of digital archaeology in game developer thomas premise studio for Virtual Reality. It looks like a game but it isnt. The game designers are working with berlin archaeologist can i call maya hit Technology Made ancient history their cooperation has yielded some surprising discoveries for example the hittites had not unusual reading technique. These are here for this one from left to right this one from right to left this one from left to right this again from right to left then back again. Yeah like in wavy lines thats awesome. Is its a business in that archaeologists are anchored in past centuries and that applies to their methodology to. The actually the Rapid Development of Computer Technology in general but also a virtue archaeology is still something we need to get our heads around that you know man come on and when i tell people im working with a game designer they just shut down because Gaming Technology sounds so frivolous but in fact this work is just the opposite views on where this is your god is with his mom. This looks like a video game but in fact its a highly accurate copy of a real temple its the temple of the weather god from aleppo one of the most important day it is in the ancient middle east the oldest parts of the temple date from the 3rd millennium b. C. With Visualization Software the operator can make the summarize and set allowing for a view of the complex in changing daylight the viewer gets a sense of space size and proportion. Does have provided instruments with the we are not really standing in this temple we can judge and see things very differently than we could on a normal computer monitor as well as a religion computer morning and. Just the fact that i can stand here and for example squat down and actually get a 3 dimensional view of the object is not something i can do on a normal computer monitor at all. Aleppo in syria the temple was located in the heart of the city in the Medieval City del from 2012 rebels holed up inside use the citadel to fire on Government Troops the result 5000 years of history turned to dust in a brutal so. In early 2011 the temple was still intact coal mines team from girl in was on site to scan the complex security in the country still seems so stable that the professor didnt just bring along his students he also took his young daughter on the trip. Went to him you know the law a 1000000 youll see another representation of the weather god mounting his chariot here hes presented his combat ready. Whats this thats the symbol for god and thats a makes. Initially it was so only research but the dasher acquired new significance through the ravages of the syrian civil war. Dont have to be a pretty fiftys and. We had an unimaginably large amount of data but when the civil war erupted and we couldnt get there anymore we were left wondering what do we do now. With mommy needs or didnt its that sounds almost cynical now but we were in an ideal position we were the only team of near eastern archaeologists to have scanned everything in 3 d. Says it was a ton of good fortune in the mists of terrible misfortune that only look. The temple was badly damaged in the war but at least its memory has been digitally preserved. The scanned data is so precise the inscriptions are even more legible in Virtual Reality than they were in real life. Thats because the mount up when i learned to dig i had a piece of paper and a pencil that was all put together today we can use a scanner that is much more accurate than any reproduction on a sheet of paper lists of of course that also gives rise to new fields of inquiry into can see that the holy father still has clout. The generation of exact copies is a field that also interests maritime archaeologists all over the world measuring and marking shipwrecks underwater is one of their most demanding and arduous tasks and the conditions are not always as good as they are here in the baltic sea off the German Island through can. Only exceptional shipwrecks a salvaged and restored like the 14th century braman kong one of the Worlds Largest ship finds. It took 18 years of expensive conservation work to restore it to its full glory to learn more about this merchant ship from 39000 archaeologists created a digital model of the congo. Its on a ship sponsored the construction of a ship like this is quite specialist saying everything in the vessel is interconnected if you move one part by just 2 centimeters and it distorts the entire shape of the ship so the computer gives you an overview. Youre not dealing with a 23 metre long shape you dont have to search the entire vessel for the place responsible for a deformation instead you can clearly see how every step you take impacts the entire structure and check whether a given step is change the overall shape that. The technology allowed researchers for example to find out how the quote was silent without ever having to lower it into water. If there is a shipwreck off reuben that is not with recovering but it is never the less of interest to our here ologists. Just as all of us want special about this find is that it dates from the middle or perhaps even the early 16th century a period from which very few ships have been found. And theres evidence that the word may have come from hamburg the bizarre you heard saw some box dams or. Even today certain details of the ship can be more clearly rendered if theyre copied underwater by hand. But the main job is done by a special camera it takes hundreds of images that are then used to generate a 3 d. Computer model of the shipwreck while the wood has been perfectly preserved in the nutrient pool water of the baltic the current has a road at the rate down to its floor. Divots stop by a so its a great thing about it is you never see the wreck like this on a dive because visibility is poor. So you can create a model like theres even if you have a visibility of just 30 centimeters you know you just have to take enough photos so they overlap then youre looking at something no one has ever seen in that shape or form. For example the frigates ballast stones that still lie along the ship floor without them the vessel couldnt have carried its cargo of heavy canons. One of the most spectacular exhibits in the collection of burnin snoozy in a bizarre make art goes largely unnoticed by visitors to the Digital World is coming to its rescue can i call my eyes latest project is the richly carved wood done that was originally house in the next red palaces of the world famous alhambra in grenada spain in berlin the dome is forced to lead a wallflower existence for conservation reasons. You believe the dome is very poorly illuminated here in berlin and visitors can appreciate the way they could amid the light conditions in the alhambra for them so our aim is to recreate those lighting conditions virtually to allow visitors both here in the Berlin Museum and visitors to the alhambra and experience of the dome in its original context on the invasion context before. In 8091 the banker arthur fund grinnell was granted permission by the spanish authorities to move the john to germany he had acquired a small palace on the alhambra from a spanish opera singer and later bequeath it to the Spanish State but he decided to keep the dont feed himself for a time it decorated his villa in berlin before he donated it to the museum. The dome was originally painted and gilded its crafted from cedar and popular wood and consists of dozens of parts a star ornament of heavenly beauty. One of the worlds most important prehistoric landscapes is located in a bend of a highlands river boy me northwest of dublin. The passage graves of new grange down and now were designated the unesco World Heritage site in 1903 the central neolithic mt of now has a set conference the 275 meters and is surrounded by 20 smaller tombs. The significance of numerous in grave stones remains a mystery many stories and legends are associated with the enormous mounds they are said to be the birthplace of heroes the hidden dwellings of elves and kings. The mount graves of newgrange doubt and now are all the catered within sight of each other. Its long been Standard Practice in archaeology to use drones to get an overview of the landscape the drones gather data to build digital terrain models on the computer sites with churches dating from the middle ages often have an older heritage invisible underground. Then a split the good idea of all rulers seeking to exert political military or religious control over a territory but occupy any place that carried a particular significance so we use these old science as a starting point because its easy to imagine that with christian eyes asian these ancient sites were chosen as places to build churches. And in fact when it comes time to evaluate the data from the g. M. Magnetic survey the archaeologists discover round. Structures that appear to predate the small metal village. Lights and they may be traces of circular graves in closing burial mounds or they could be round house. In that distribution these objects make no reference to this ditch complex so one can assume that they date from another period so they would have to. Discovering hidden relics without taking draws on technology that originated in military applications. Seem to give us a colorful certainty of physical methods are based on measuring differences in the earths Magnetic Field to the Technology Comes from hunting submarines which could be located underwater because they created disturbances in the Magnetic Field. But this is a method that we now use in a modified form in archaeology or look youve been. Suppose luciani is surrounded by traces of the past his work focuses on the mountain plateau of glauber need frankfurt it was 1st settled thousands of years ago the celts in particular left their mark on the area today it is known at the plateau was surrounded by a magnificent wall it did not serve as a fortification but the slope was steep enough rather it was designed to signal the power and splendor of the celtic princes the french young began here in the socalled nearly think age with the emergence of the 1st farmers and Cattle Breeders in the region of the better of the 1st settlement up here the missiles but culture had no ramparts development continued into the late bronze age and by the early are an age around 500. 00 b. C. To deal with it so it was settled by the 1st people we could classify as celts and they were also the 1st to 45 this plateau over fist on. An in conspicuous aerial photo taken in 1908 open the door to one of the most spectacular discoveries in archaeology in germany archaeologists have been using Aerial Photography for decades to identify structures in the ground but this method only yields results following long periods of drought. Aka a lot in the field here you can see a darker structure relatively clearly in the great order which indicates that the grain is being supplied with more moisture in this particular place but ordered that so it can be assumed that there is a ditch there that retains the moisture better as a whole can count. The grave of a cultic prince was discovered deep in the field at the foot of the glasberg the corresponding burial mount had been plowed away long ago the huge hill has since been reconstructed and a museum installed behind the hill. For. A life size sandstone figure was found near the grave. The figure was in doubt with decorative chains and rings it was lying in a ditch together with fragments from other statues the celtic prince is crowned by a strange head piece. A golden chain was found in the princes grave the stone figure was depicted wearing exactly the same chain. Its likely that the stone were a prince of cloud bed is the exact likeness of a person who lived more than 2 and a half 1000 years ago. The body in the tomb was found with the same strange headpiece as the one crowning the stone figure. In subsequent years ariel archaeology has made further strides. We are made in the closet and in addition to classical aerial archaeology now carried out digitally we also have other computer assisted methods of nondestructive testing to obtain information about archaeological remains in the last inch off. The most important of these methods is the lie down scan the scanner is fitted to an airplane and surveys the landscape below light as scanning was originally used by surveyors for archaeologists the data has proved a quantum leap in knowledge even in flight outer rain models look somewhat on spectacular at 1st glance. What makes the lidar scan so invaluable is the methods ability to remove the noise of trees and vegetation from the data. Driven off the lot from the Ground Penetrating radar shoots electromagnetic pulses into the earth from airplanes and sometimes helicopters. These signals are reflected back by any underground structures and the difference in the laser return times makes it possible to create a 3 d. Image of the terrain it works in the forest as well because enough laser light can penetrate through the trees so that we achieve a relatively exactly surface image even in the forest come on this image of you can follow the course of the roman lemus the border between the roman empire and none occupied regions and this here may have been a watch tower for. And here and here in the forest the remnants of a field of burial mounds this one here could theoretically be a burial mound that was opened in the past my guess would be sometime in the 18th century at the time people typically entered from the top we call it funneling so they dug a funnel into the mound to extract burial objects or skeletons and what remained where these small holes at the top of the mount these faint traces indicate that its what happened here and also was an actual post lucian he discovered a large burial mount very close to the grave of the celtic prince a tiny dot on the scan a image not visible as a great image the thicket of the forest multiple layers of our past live beneath the ground we walk on we just cant see it digital archaeology makes the invisible visible. In ireland to the number of discovered monuments has increased 100 fold with the use of modern prospecting methods one particularly spectacular example is the hill of tara the mysterious National Treasure it was the seat of irish kings and pagan priests at the height of their power. After. The hell of tara exudes an air of magic an island. Back in 1000 sentry an irishman would gather here for that and swear a holy o. Not to rest until the land had won its independence and there was a reason they did it here in the town. Today self