Archaeological artifacts at Mahmoudiyya Mosque (975 AH / 1568 CE)

Abstract

Mahmudiya Mosque had once enclosed several monumental artifacts. Some of which are still standing like Dikka al-mubaligh, and the pulpit "Minbar". Other artifacts were transferred to the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo like the main entrance ' s wooden shutter. other artifacts had been lost, like the wall's woodenclock and the original recital seat "Dikkat al-muqri", which were once present according to ancient references, and the Mosque's old plate. This paper aims at shedding light on these monumental artifacts, in an attempt to return back the lost artifact and the replaced ones as well. Another reason is to attract attention to the artifacts that suffer from biological insect damage as the Dikkat al-Mubaligh, and the ones that had been badly affected with rust accumulation on their surfaces, such as the iron and brass grilles that coat the mosque's lower windows. Furthermore, this paper illuminates the significance of restoring the damaged upper roundel windows "quamariat" inside the mosque-as possible-to their original structure.

3D Real Scene Data Collection of Cultural Relics and Historical Sites Based on Digital Image Processing

“…For the matching of 3D discrete surfaces corresponding to the cultural relic fragments, the feature extraction of fracture surfaces is very difficult, resulting in a very large amount of computation to solve the transformation matrix between adjacent fragments. In the field of digital protection of cultural relics, the effect and efficiency of fragment splicing directly using the existing methods are not ideal, and a new method for automatic splicing of 3D fragments of damaged cultural relics must be studied based on the analysis of the inherent structural characteristics of the cultural relics [ 16 ]. The three-dimensional data system architecture diagram is shown in Figure 3 .…”