How has Technology Revolutionized Our Understanding of Ancient Civilizations?
Prof. Ghada Mohamed Amer, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST)
12 March 2023
01:00 PM
Main Building, Fourth Floor Floating Room (F4)
The Antiquities Museum and the Zahi Hawass Center for Egyptology, affiliated to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Cultural Outreach Sector, organize a lecture entitled “How has Technology Revolutionized Our Understanding of Ancient Civilizations?”. The lecture is held on Sunday, 12 March 2023; 1:00 pm, at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Main Building, Fourth Floor Floating Room (F4). The lecture will be delivered by Prof. Ghada Mohamed Amer, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Misr University for Science and Technology (MUST).
The lecture sheds light on how modern technology has revolutionized the process of revealing the secrets and having a better and deeper understanding of ancient civilizations, in which several mysteries lie. It also highlights the prominent role of science and technology in the advancement of human civilization, which has cherished them as a tool to promote human independence. We believe that technology was the first step towards establishing the humankind civilization.
From radiocarbon dating in the 1940s, to remote sensing techniques in the 1960s; archaeologists have long been the first to adopt futuristic techniques based on expertise in several scientific disciplines. Today, archaeologists use a range of advanced devices and techniques to gain new and exciting insights into the ancient world. Technology-supported discoveries include incredible ones; for example, the detection of a void deep inside the 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid of Giza, thanks to the new scanning technique—no different from the x-ray method used by doctors to view and assess bones—that measures subatomic particles passing through the Pyramid. Other examples include; ocean robots to explore ancient submerged cities, artificial intelligence to restore the sounds of everyday life in ancient times, and virtual reality to transform dusty monuments into vivid virtual communities.