CyArk Digital Archive

This week our partners at University Colorado, Denver's Center of Preservation Research documented Independence Rock in Wyoming. It is part of the Oregon, California, and Mormon emigrant trails West and is covered in graffiti of names and dates from travelers passing by the trail landmark. It will be the second site of the OR/CA/Mormon Trails to be digitally preserved by CyArk and our partners; the first was Fort Laramie, WY. The digital preservation project is in partnership with the US National Park Service.

Happy #fiedlworkfriday ! Recently documentation took place of the second mission of our broader El Camino Real digital preservation effort. CyArk's Alex Reinhold laser scans the interior of Carmel Mission Basilica, CA. You can read more about scanning for El Camino Real and Mission Dolores in San Francisco, CA here: http://archive.cyark.org/bringing-digital-preservation-to-el-camino-real-of-california-blog

Visit CyArk Digital Archive and browse through the heritage sites to figure out which site was photographed. Reply or tweet us with the answer!

In our 3D viewer, you can cut, zoom and measure detailed models. Click through to learn more about Mission San Juan Capistrano along with the other missions in the San Antonio Missions Complex.

Reblog or tweet us with your answers!

Boulder 35 was once the top half of a larger rock with boulder 34. Only the top face preserves its dark patina and old petroglyphs, which include a rare row of Red Ant Clan symbols – a clan that is now extinct among Hopi villages.

This is an animation of the Mount Rushmore laser scan data. Higher quality 3D images, photos and videos await you. Visit http://archive.cyark.org/mount-rushmore-national-memorial-intro for more!

Take a trip to Mount Rushmore from the comfort of your own room. This self guided virtual tour will take you around the monument to get up close with the presidents.

Bet you've never seen Abraham Lincoln this close before.

Tutuveni is an important site along the Hopi pilgrimage route to Ongtuvqa, also known as the Grand Canyon. The site lies west of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, and within the neighboring Navajo Nation. Meaning Newspaper Rock in Hopi, Tutuveni contains 5,000 petroglyphs of Hopi clan symbols and is the largest known collection of clan symbols in the American Southwest. Among Tutuveni's 150 sandstone boulders are the records of more than 1,000 years of Hopi history and culture. 

The Royal Tombs at Kasubi, Uganda. Photograph and scan data collected in 2009 by CyArk partner SkyBucket 3D. Photo of fire in 2010 taken by Swaleh ‘Swalz’ Swaleh.

Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations -- but they're under threat from pollution, war, neglect. Ben Kacyra, who invented a groundbreaking 3D scanning system, is using his invention to scan and preserve the world's heritage in archival detail.

Ben Kacyra talks about CyArk and Mount Rushmore

Help us preserve historical and cultural buildings and sites around the world! You can find out ways to donate, volunteer and partner with us at out website. Thanks!

Stone Bridge of Regensburg, Germany.