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3D Laser Scanners Capture and Translate the Alhambra Fortress's 10,000 Arabic Inscriptions [Archaeology]

gizmodo.com » 2009 » April » 6th » 3D Laser Scanners Capture and Translate the Alhambra Fortress's 10,000 Arabic Inscriptions [Archaeology]

Tagged: arabic, architecture, spain, granada, archaeology, allah, alhambra

The Alhambra in Granada is so vast and covered with carved Arabic writing that nobody has ever had the ability to catalog it all. Finally, using modern technology, it's doable. According to the Guardian and the Independent, experts are hard at work collecting over 10,000 inscriptions that nobody has translated in over 500 years since Ferdinand and Isabel evicted the Moors from their mighty … Continue Reading »

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