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• Λυριτζής, Ιωάννης
• Al-Otaibi, Fahad Mutlaq
• Volonakis, P
• Δριβαλιάρη, Νίκη

The New technologies alter our lives and the way in which we perceive it beyond the imaginable. This further ulterior over is the point in space-time in which coalition of science, technology and art openly combined for the 3rd Cultural Revolution, and for environmentally sustainable abundance. However, this time, the “Beyond” not only explores the dynamic 3D screen, it moves on from the bits to the atoms and incorporates 3D-printing and digital cloud-distribution which combined to relevant scanning or photographic technologies create a virtual environment as a real world. We are entering the central source for current and emerging trends in cultural heritage informatics with new disciplines, sub-disciplines and terminology to emerge. Virtual, cyber-archaeology and cultural heritage to cyber-archaeometry, are matters that are tackled. The virtual archaeology case studies, over the World, as a result of advanced technology emerging from computer sciences, however, stress the naturalistic methodology, challenges digital reconstructions and serious games. There may provoke also harassment and emergence of fundamental hermeneutical questions which serve as the basis of a synoptic and synthetic philosophy that combines art and science corresponding to classical techne, logos and ethos.

• History and Archaeology
• Computer and information sciences

• Virtual reality in archaeology
• Technology and civilization

archaeology, cultural heritage, cyber, digital, virtual, 3D, archaeometry, museums, world wide web, interaction, gamification, augmented, SfM

Corresponding author: I.Liritzis ([email protected])

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