Historical monuments as architectural heritage are, economically and culturally, considered one of the key aspects for modern communities. Cultural heritage represents a country’s national identity and pride and maintains and enriches that country’s culture. Therefore, conservation of the monuments remained from our ancestors requires everybody’s serious and unremitting effort. Conservation, re...

since historical monuments carry national values and identity, their maintenance and protection is necessary through methods which provide holistic stability and originality preservation. nanotechnology creates the possibility of monitoring the intrinsic traits such as melting temperature, magnetic properties, and load capacity. the colour of materials could even satay changeless in their chemi...

the archaeologists have studied the historical structures and ancient monuments from different perspectives they sometimes survey them in terms of their periods and they also investigate their way of construction on the basis of various techniques. they can reconstruct the beliefs, rites and rituals, customs, artistic attitudes, ... of the people who built these monuments. in this research it h...

the factors that have been influential in the damaging and destroying the iranian historical monuments can be divided into two categories: first, the natural phenomena such as floods, earthquakes, famines, and droughts; and second, human behavior that on some occasions had intentionally or unintentionally caused some damages to the historical monuments. the flawed policies of the rulers that ha...

lawgiver, for the purpose of penal supporting of national historical-cultural monuments, ratified repeated article 566 of islamic penal code in 1388; which demonstrates three actions of “making fake cases”, “introducing, carrying or storing” and “buying of historical-cultural monuments” as crimes. this criminalizing was necessary and advantageous, but the procedure of criminalizing has some wea...

In the paper several methods for the rectification of historical images, with and without reference points, will be discussed. An example will be given for each case. At least there will be shown, how rectified historical images help to visualise the authentic state of historical monuments in a three-dimensional way.

This paper is about single three-point perspective historical photography-based CAAD modeling (amateur camera calibration, pose and 3-d reconstruction) of man-made environments, buildings and monuments, rich in geometrical regularity. The proposed method, gains profit from the presence in the image (historical photography) of three vanishing directions and two orthogonal object edges with known...

What is believed to be the first fluorescence imaging of the facades of a historical building, which was accomplished with a scanning fluorescence lidar system, is reported. The mobile system was placed at a distance of ~60 m from the medieval Lund Cathedral (Sweden), and a 355-nm pulsed laser beam was swept over the stone facades row by row while spectrally resolved fluorescence signals of eac...