Wishing to know the past, mankind has relied on archeology for many centuries. But not everything can be explored through excavation. In addition, it is sometimes difficult to study an object without damaging it. This problem can be solved using computer technology. In 1990, Paul Reilly introduced a new concept - "virtual archeology".
Thus, computer reconstruction allows you to save the lost information and recreate the object again, based on comprehensive research by specialists. For example, the most famous monuments of antiquity are stormed by millions of tourists every year. As a result, having survived millennia, they are catastrophically destroyed in just a few decades … Humanity may lose its priceless heritage.
The way out is to create virtual copies of the monuments that can be accessed by everyone. But the creation of such a virtual environment requires active cooperation of specialists in the field of archeology and computer technology.
New devices for photographic and video recording have also appeared. Analysis of aerial imagery and satellite data allows new archaeological sites to be identified. With the help of magnetometry and georadar survey, it is possible to clarify their location and structure. After that, the discovered object receives a "passport" and is registered by the monument protection service.
It is not at all necessary to start excavations immediately. Moreover, this is a costly business and requires the involvement of various specialists. You must first provide a decent base for research.
Currently, archeology is not only excavations, but also targeted research in the field of geology, geochemistry, biology, ecology, physics. All together, it allows you to recreate not only object models (both static and dynamic), but also the processes associated with them. Forecasting is then confirmed by traditional methods such as excavations and again transferred to virtual space … This creates a three-dimensional model of the monument, accessible to everyone, for example, in a museum. The importance of virtual archeology was appreciated by museum workers all over the world, including the staff of the Russian Hermitage.
But one should not think that virtual archeology is limited only to our planet. After all, numerous data and photographs from space also provide a lot of food for analysis. So, more recently, a skeleton was discovered in photographs taken by the Curiosity scientific laboratory. Virtual archaeologists believe that we have before us the remains of a Martian lizard, though pretty much covered with soil.
However, some experts do not exclude that the skeleton may also belong to a rodent. They were interested in the front teeth, or rather the canines, characteristic of this type of animal. To maintain objectivity, analysts had to go through all the latest photos from the Red Planet, 750 copies. The image, similar to the remains of a lizard, appeared only on one of them …
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It is known that images from Mars periodically come in which similar objects are visible. This category includes two "skulls" found in the Gusev crater by the Spirit rover. Round "stones" with holes lay near them. Most of all, their location resembled vertebrae …
It is interesting that the “bones” are the same color as the ground. But dinosaur fossils dating back many millions of years look exactly like this.
One involuntarily recalls the myths of the ancients, which say that the gods came to people using giant birds … If there was once intelligent life on Mars, then who prevented the deities from taking various animals with them on a space tour?
But even if Mars was mastered not by deities, but by mere mortals, then, you must admit, it is reasonable, before landing on an alien planet, to “launch” such Martian “Belka and Strelka” there as pioneers. Animals could adapt to an unusual habitat by crushing and transforming.
Either the gods or ancient space aliens have nothing to do with it. Life on the Red Planet arose independently and for some time evolved … And today we find on Mars traces of its ancient inhabitants …
Meanwhile, the majority of experts are still rather skeptical about the theory of "life on Mars". The objects in the photographs that enthusiasts mistake for the bones of living things are just rocks and other natural objects that have taken on bizarre shapes, they say.
Archaeological and paleontological research on Mars is most likely a task for future generations. In the meantime, nothing can be said for sure.
Elena Gimadieva