STONE Pietre Egizie: a Free Mobile Application for Promoting the Scientific Research on Ornamental Stones of Museo Egizi
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STONE Pietre Egizie: a Free Mobile Application for Promoting the Scientific Research on Ornamental Stones of Museo Egizio of Torino, Italy D. Valentino 1 & A. Borghi 2 & A. d’Atri 2 & F. Gambino 2 & L. Martire 2 & L. Perotti 2 & G. Vaggelli 3 Received: 11 October 2019 / Accepted: 24 June 2020 # The European Association for Conservation of the Geological Heritage 2020
Abstract A free mobile application was realized to offer to a wide audience an alternative key to unravel the collection displayed at the Egyptian Museum of Torino, strengthening the link between classical and scientific knowledge. Many of the exhibits are carved in various types of stones, exploited at different locations. Indeed, Egypt is an extremely rich country in terms of ornamental stones, which are very durable and widely used by ancient Egyptians to represent their aspiration to eternity. STONE Pietre Egizie is an application focusing on 50 exhibits arranged in 11 halls, chosen depending on their historical and artistic importance but, importantly, also selected on the basis of the stone material adopted for their workmanship. Within STONE Pietre Egizie, the selected finds are part of thematic itineraries through which the user can discover the museum from the cultural and archaeological point of view and, at the same time, learn geological details about the used stone materials. The visitor will be driven through twenty-one different types of rocks, each of them characterized by the petrographic macro- and microscopic description, the picture, the quarrying district of the material, and the geology of the source area. The application is free and accessible to everyone from the App Store and Google Play for Apple and Android devices, respectively. Keywords Ornamental stone . Applied petrography . Multimedia application . Ancient Egyptians . Cultural heritage
Introduction The progress of scientific and technological research has always influenced the world of cultural heritage inducing changes in the development of civilization and improving the quality of the study and conservation of archaeological finds. However, scientific research has devoted a specific attention to the universe of cultural heritage only a few decades ago (Cooper 2015). As a consequence, the cultural asset became a stimulating target for Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-020-00489-w) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * G. Vaggelli [email protected]; [email protected] 1
Museo Egizio, Via Accademia delle Scienze, 6, 10123 Turin, Italy
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Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso, 35, 10123 Turin, Italy
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CNR – Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, c/o Università di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso, 35, 10123 Turin, Italy
scientific research, to which the historical knowledge is intertwined with its inexhaustible contribution. It is precisely in the sphere of material history that science can bring a furt
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