News Article
In History-Rich Region, a Very New System Tracks Very Old Things

Over the last four years the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, with financing from the World Monuments Fund and help from the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, has built an ambitious Web-based system that will allow archaeologists and conservators there, for the first time, to gain access to decades’ worth of records about Jordan’s sites and to monitor the condition of those sites much more easily.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/arts/design/25getty.html?_r=1
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Related Projects: MIDDLE EASTERN GEODATABASE FOR ANTIQUITIES (MEGA)
Publication: The New York Times
Tags: Jordan, Iraq


