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154is also involved in a great many others along the same lines of using digital technologies as a means of dissemination.of a liated institutions. They will all take partin reconstructing Palmyra’s important heritage by gathering as much information as possible to document and draw up a digital database that will be available on the internet. This content is provided as open data resources on the GitHub platform under a Creative Commons license that allows users to access 3D reconstructions of elements as important as the Arch of Triumph or Temple of Baal Shamin, now destroyed, and the Temple of Bel or Roman Theatre, which still survive but are in danger of disappearing.Giza ProjectHarvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, together with the French company Dassault Systèmes, are collaborating on the Giza Project, which involves using modern 3D digiti- sation systems to produce a three-dimensional model of the existing structures in the Giza plateau.The project took as a basis the studies of the expedition conducted more than a century ago by the Egyptologist George Reisner of Harvard University. The large collection of photos, diaries, drawings and records relating to that expedition to Giza were painstakingly digitised from 2000 to 2011 and made available online by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on the Giza Archives website.138This documentation work made it possible to create the Giza3D139 online experience whereby Dassault Systèmes140 was able to reconstruct the Giza necropolis as accurately as possible.A multidisciplinary team made up of archae- ologists, Egyptologists and graphic designers worked in close collaboration to ensure that all the structures and objects from the pyramids, temples and tombs of Giza were represented as accurately as possible in the Giza3D virtual model.Figure 10 - Image of the Masjid Wazir Khan mosque (Pakistan) captured by the 500 Challenge project. Screenshot. Source: http://www.cyark.org/projects/#newpalmyra#newpalmyra is the hashtag of a campaign designed to start up an international digital archaeology project137 aimed chie y at recovering the heritage of the ancient Syrian city of Palmira, whose monumental ruins were partially de- stroyed in 2015 during the war waged by Islamic State. It is intended as a collaborative cultural development project open to the participation of archaeologists, professionals in the elds of 3D modelling and digitisation, historians, artists, curators, programmers, educators, journalists, re- searchers and Wikipedians, as well as a long listFigure 11 - Model of the Temple of Bel (Palmyra, Syria), part of the #newpalmyra project. Screenshot. Source: http://www.newpalmyra.org/2. DISSEMINATION, ENHANCEMENT AND EDUCATION