Takes an issue with the Technological Advancement is rabbit ocean or death 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 data or allows us to shop in the focus of our inquiry and pinpoint exactly where to perform the date. Ive. Ive. Ive. In archaeology state of the Art Technology sometimes assumes the guise of an antiquated hand caught up. While archaeologists route boys in and rose and shot set up their equipment on a meadow they colleagues nearby a 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 survive a wider area. A group of german and irish archaeologists have met up at the old church at screen a fifteenth century site state in mysticism but the church ruin is almost young compared to the anxious 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 metal a thick tombs unique monuments built around three thousand b. C. By people who left nothing behind but their graves. A d. Itll reconstruction lends an impression of the graves interior is many built in alignment with astronomical events. The archaeologists dragged the senses across the meadow to determine what lies beneath the surface. Is finished on this device is to me wide and equipped with five sensors so you can cover two to three actors a day with a device like this so its a fast way of collecting and evaluating archaeological data. And equipped with sixteen senses their colleagues magnetometer is even more effective in gathering archaeological evidence that humans were going to get off so we need to be careful here because if we swap the cables then the sensors will transmit the wrong positions. Thats why we do a final channel to see that everythings working so the push on course for this one 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. It should have been me its now hooking up the geomagnetic device to the computer. For computers the task of recording all the measurement data and showing us where we have to prospect even when we are driving across the terrain in victoria over to. The sixteen cents a device is used to take geomagnetic measurements of the ground. Move. Everybody brings but required a figure for the landscape harbors a history that began thousands of years ago and the archaeologist Job Description calls for knowledge not just of history but technology too and today it helps if they dont mind being followed by curious horses we dont know exactly where the church was founded and we also want to know a little more about the history prior to the earliest documentary sources because we have some reference to say from the the eighth century in the tenth century referring to the screen being a place of burial. Because courts 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 senses dragging behind their vehicle measure the earths Magnetic Field which lies underground like an invisible veil 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. Seventeen hundred kilometers further east in berlin work is underway on a different type of digital archaeology in game developer Thomas Brennan studio for Virtual Reality. It looks like a game but it isnt. The game designers are working with berlin archaeologists call maya hit technology mates 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. As its a missin that archaeologists are anchored in past centuries and that applies to their methodology to. The ashes of the Rapid Development of Computer Technology in general but also a virtue archaeology is still something we need to get our heads around. On 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 what this is a goddess with is wrong with. This looks like a video game but in fact its a highly accurate copy of a real temple its the temple of the weather got from aleppo one of the most important day it is in the ancient middle east the oldest parts of the temple date from the Third Millennium b. C. With Visualization Software the operator can make the sun rise and set allowing for a view of the complex in changing daylight the viewer gets a sense of space size and proportion. Providing this time its 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 three 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 jail from twenty twelve rebels holed up inside use the citadel to fire on Government Troops the result five thousand years of history turned to dust in a brutal civil war in early twenty eleven the temple was still intact coal miners team from the lynn was on site to scan the complex security in the country still seemed so stable that the professor didnt just bring along his students he also took his young daughter on the trip. Below or million 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 we have had sixtys 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 if. Its ordered its sounds almost cynical now but we were in an ideal position was we were the only team of near eastern archaeologists to have scanned everything in three d. Says it was a ton of good fortune in the mists of terrible misfortune that dont 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 in on top when i learned to dig i had a piece of paper and a pencil that was all political and today we can use a scanner that is much more accurate than any reproduction on a sheet of paper list of of course that also gives rise to new fields of inquiry into can see how the holy father still has its 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 of fruit can. Only exceptional shipwrecks a salvaged and restored like the fourteenth century braman kong one of the Worlds Largest ship finds. It took eighteen years of expensive conservation work to restore it to its full glory to learn more about this merchant ship from thirty nine thousand archaeologists created a digital model of the called. Zone a ship sponsored zone as was the construction of a ship like this is quite specialising everything in the vessel is interconnected if you move one part by just two centimeters and it distorts the entire shape of the ship so the computer gives you an overview. Youre not dealing with a twenty three metre long ship you dont have to search the entire vessel for the place responsible for a deformity 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. The technology allowed researches for example to find out how the coke was silent without ever having to lower it into water. There is a shipwreck off reuben that is not worth recovering but it is nevertheless of interest to an here ologists. Just as on the wall special about this find is that it dates from the middle or perhaps even the early sixteenth century a period from which very few ships have been found and there is evidence that the word may have come from hamburg the bizarre you heard saw some books dumbs or and. Even today certain details of the ship can be more clearly rendered if they are 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 three 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. David stop by is thats the great thing about it is you never see the wreck like theres on a diet because visibility is poor. You can create a model like theres even if you have a visibility of just thirty centimeters. You just have to take enough photos so they overlap and 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 cannons. One of the most spectacular exhibits in the collection of burnin snoozy and the slimy art goes largely unnoticed by visitors for the Digital World is coming to its rescue can i call myers 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. Because here in 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 our harbor and experience of the dome in its original context. Invasion context before. In eighty ninety one the banker arthur funk when i was granted permission by the spanish authorities to move the dome 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 for himself for a time it decorated his villa in berlin before he donated it to the museum in. 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 the highlands river boring northwest of dublin. The passage graves of new grange down enough with designated a unesco World Heritage site in one thousand nine hundred three the central neolithic mt of now has a sit com france the two hundred seventy five meters and is surrounded by twenty smaller tombs. The significance of numerous engraved 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 the 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 they 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 sites 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 little village. Lights and they may be traces of circular graves in. Closing burial mounds or they could be round house but in a distribution these objects make no reference to this ditch complex so one can assume that they date from another period so i pay you with. Discovering hidden relics without taking draws on technology that originated in military applications. To your physical or from the certainty of physical methods up 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 field. But this is a method that we now use in a modified form in archaeology or look you can whats an. Axle pose youzhny is surrounded by traces of the past his work focuses on the mountain plateau of glauber need frankfurt it was first settled thousands of years ago the celts in particular left their mark on the area today it is known that 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 near litigation with the emergence of the first farmers and Cattle Breeders in the region of the better of the first settlement up here the missiles back culture had no ramparts development continued into the late bronze age and by the early are an age around five hundred b. C. E. Its it was settled by the first people we could classify as celts and they were also the first to fortify this plateau for professed on. An in conspicuous aerial photo taken in one thousand nine hundred eight open the door to one of the most spectacular discoveries in archaeology in germany archaeologists have been using Aerial Photography for decades to. Dent of five structures in the ground but this method only yields results following long periods of drought. In our 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 it 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 celtic prince was discovered deep in the field at the foot of the glasberg the corresponding burial mound had been plowed away long ago the huge hill has since been reconstructed and a museum installed behind the hill. Hole. 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 two and a half thousand 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 into classes 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. The most important of these methods is the lie down scan the scanner disputed 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 if light outer rain models look somewhat on spectacular at first 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 off 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 three d. Image of the terrain it works in the forest as well because enough laser like can penetrate through the trees so that we achieve a relatively exact surface image even in the forest coming on this image of you can follow the course of the roman lemus the border between the roman empire and none occupied regions would dance this here may have been a watch tower for it. 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 eighteenth 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 what happened here and also was on axel post lucian he discovered a large burial mound very close to the grave of the celtic prince a tiny dot on the scanner image not visible as a great image the thicket of the forest. Multiple layers of our past lie 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 one hundred 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. For the hell of tara exudes an