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A. H. Layard at Kuyunjik. Drawing by Solomon Caesar Malan, 1850

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Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB PC (/lɛərd/; 5 March 1817 – 5 July 1894) was an English traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat.

He is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace reliefs known, and in 1851 the library of Ashurbanipal.

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 Let all cry out with fervor to God, and let them turn from their evil ways and their violent behavior. 

 Who knows? Perhaps God may change his mind and relent, and his fierce anger may abate, so that we will not perish.

Jonah 3:8-9

Artwork: John Martin, Repentance of Nineveh

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North Iraq summer 2015. I was in Baji, a strategic point to link Fallujah in Anbar province to Mosul. The fights were on in the refinery area. Islamic State used remote controlled car bomb to resist the siege of Iraqi security forces. In the pic a member of special detail of military governor of Niniveh province. The connection of the region to Baghdad was a thiny finger of highway 1, dotted with vehicle wreckages because mortar shells and marked by long anti-sniper walls. A long chain of checkpoints, the constant risk of an IS attack, military compound behind concrete several meters tall were the signs of a country still fighting to survive. But eventually Iraqis will retake Iraq - copyright pierrechiartano #Iraq #Niniveh #Baji #Baghdad #war #IS #middleeast #combatcamera #photo #photography #reporting #army #police #specialforce #swcc #chriskyle #likeme #like4likes #photoobserve https://www.instagram.com/p/CF2uaRMHT2G/?igshid=d83q9yi4527v

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Jonah and the Whale

Jonah and the Whale

  Jan Brueghel the Elder -Jonah Leaving the Whale – (17th century)

Jonah and the Whale

(from “The Book of Jonah”)

Jonah received a calling from the Lord to go to Nineveh and preach because its people were very wicked. Anyway, He said He had decided to destroy the town after forty days. Nineveh was one of Israel’s greatest enemies and Jonah was not willing to go there. Thus, he ran away in the…

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Discovering the land of Nineveh: an interview with Daniele Morandi Bonacossi (3/3)

Estimated reading time: 6 min.  Lien vers la version française | Versione italiana

In this third part of the interview with Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, director of the “Land of Nineveh Archaeological Project (LoNAP)”, we will see why new technologies and in particular digitization can be considered an essential tool for modern archeology! 

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What do you think of the technologies used by Iconem, but more generally of digital technologies in archeology?

We live in a time of economic-political tensions, especially in the Middle East. Digital archeology plays an essential role in rebuilding archaeological sites destroyed by war barbarians. So parallel to the aspect of usability, I also think there is the historical value to be crucial! For example..

..the reconstruction of the arc of the temple of Bel in Palmira. Communication through digital and virtual technologies really becomes a crucial tool to make archeology sustainable. It allows not only to reconstruct and document the findings with the outmost precision, but also to communicate in a very effective and dynamic way the results obtained, through the 3D. Digital is now a protagonist in our work... and an essential resource to exploit.

“Communication through digital and virtual technologies really becomes a crucial tool to make archeology sustainable.”

How do you imagine archeology in the future?

I think archeology is already a science of the future, and in the field of humanistic disciplines, it is abler than anything else to communicate and to create synergies between different knowledge. Modern archaeological research on the field is strongly interdisciplinary. The archaeologist has to be able to communicate between fields of complementary knowledge and to ask the specialists the right questions. You have to know how to coordinate and communicate with multidisciplinary research groups: architects, restorers, detectors, photographers, geomorphologists, archeo-zoologs, archaeo-botans, and of course, experts in digital archeology! 

Nowadays, one of the central field of archeology, in an era where resources are less, and we depend on – declining-  public research funds, it is very important to communicate in the right way and to make it clear to the community why it is important to invest in archeology. And here's where digital archeology comes into play!

“.. archeology is already a science of the future.. abler than anything else to communicate and to create synergies between different knowledge” 

How do you exploit the potential of digital technologies in your work?

Digital reconstructions and virtual visits may seem like a technological dream, but they are now the practice. I was telling just before about our study of the channel network and carved reliefs on the mountains by the Assyrian King Sennacherib..

Thanks to the digital technologies based on the use of drones, laser scanners and photogrammetry, we will be able for the first time to document these rock reliefs with very high precision and to rebuild them digitally.

We will make this cultural heritage accessible through the creation of an archaeological park, which will also include a tourist center where you can make a virtual tour before you can view the sites directly on the field. Visitors will see how the channel system was in the VIII-VII sec. and then compare it with real archaeological remains!

Which site would you like to see completely rebuilt in 3D?

It's hard to choose, especially because many sites would be perfect for digital reconstruction. But one or two sites in particular would be two beautiful tests for a reconstruction with 3D models: the site of Nineveh and Nimrud. 

“ Here, then, the creation of portals for digital archeology would take on a very significant meaning, even in the dissemination of knowledge.”

Old capitals of the Assyrian kingdom, in northern Iraq, have been the protagonists of the first archaeological excavations since the mid-1800s. These are monumental sites, of which today we know a lot, thanks to excavations that lasted more than a century and a half! Although monumental, they were built in raw bricks, which did not allow total preservation: they are therefore hardly accessible to a non-authorized audience. Here, then, the creation of portals for digital archeology would take on a very significant meaning, even in the dissemination of knowledge. In this regard, I am involved in the construction of an international archaeological exhibition on the capital of the Assyrian Empire, Nineveh, which will be held in October 2017 at the Leiden National Archaeological Museum in Leiden, which will focus on digital reconstructions ...

Images: courtesy of Terradininive.com

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The Questions that Count

I dont know how many of you that read these blog posts that I put up have caught on that this is a method for me where I can just write and express what God is dealing with in me and hope that it helps any one else that may be going through something similar. I'm here working out of a table at starbucks trying to wrap my brain around why certain things happen - nothing overly deep - but I was almost listening to my prayer and realized .. Wait, this is sooo selfish! and God then fully put in my spirit the story we had just been studying at church ( Elevation GTA : @ElevationGTA ) about Jonah and how the book ends in the question "Should I not be concerned with the Great city of Niniveh?..." and I realized that in my selfish desire to be involved in certain things God was dealing with my personal convenience and saying to me ... "Should I not be concerned in this other person then? or just your convenience" I am so thankful for moments like these where God in His goodness allows us to grow and look to him and find that he has everything in his hands.