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Dozens of objects that have cultural, technical or historical value are destroyed in the world every day. Sometimes these are small monuments of various origins, standing in seclusion. Yet they disappear irrevocably, and often there is even no mention of them. The reasons are the expansion of civilization, lack of interest, poverty, terrorism, wars, religious conflicts, vandalism and other unfortunate phenomena of human civilisation. This contribution deals with an example of the gradual collapse of technical monu...

In the last decade, the rapid development of computers and sophisticated software in image capturing and processing brought on the development of automated object documentation methods. Documentation methods like 3D scanning or photogrammetric technology called image-based modelling and rendering (IBMR) or SfM (Structure from Motion) have become common methods and give us the possibility to create a real 3D model of objects. It is important in archaeology for findings documentation and visualization, and in cultur...

In 2018, a project called ?Monastic settlement as a socio-economic phenomenon in early Islamic Northern Mesopotamia? has been launched at the Palacky University in Olomouc in cooperation with the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU, Faculty of Civil Engineering, dept. of Geomatics). The project is granted from the Czech Science Foundation for three years. The project will be carried out in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan, where the Czech Archaeological Mission, the longest continuously operating for...