Idrimi's New Path

On September 27th, at Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Making Light will launch an initiative to combat stereotypes of Syrian refugees. Factum Foundation supported their efforts by recording the statue of Idrimi at the British Musuem (see the 3D Model) and producing a facsimile that will be part of the travelling exhibition Syria Past and Present.

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Facsimile of Seti I

The exhibition Scanning Seti: The Regeneration of a Pharaonic Tomb at the Antikenmuseum Basel focuses on the evolution of the tomb since its discovery by Belzoni in 1817. The exhibition recreates the tomb as it was originally found and includes panels reproducing Harrry Burton's famous phorographs (pictured here). The facsimiles of tomb and sarcaphagous will demonstrate how the tomb looks today.

Known Worlds

Oak Taylor Smith recorded the Book of Roger, a 16th century manuscript of al-Idrisi's description of the world, composed in 1152. Al-Idrisi´s maps incorporated knowledge about Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Far East.

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New Partnership

Factum Foundation and French photogrammetry specialists Iconem will be collaborating on a number of different projects between September and December 2017. Iconem uses digital technology, such as drone-based photogrammetry to create screen-based visualisations of heritage sites. Iconem and Factum share many ideals on issues such as the ownership and access to data, believing that profits derived from the data should always benefit the institutions preserving the site or the work of art.

Soane's Ark: Building with Symbols

Factum Foundation is proud to announce a new exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, London, on Soane's relationship with freemasonry. The centrepiece is a reconstruction of Soane's 'Ark of the Masonic Covenant', a piece of ritual furniture built in 1813 but lost in a fire in 1883.

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Powhatan's Mantle

The seventeenth-century mantle associated with Chief Powhatan was recorded at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The garment, made of deer skin decorated with shells, is one of the earliest North American artifacts to have entered a European collection.

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Many ways to Piranesi

Factum´s re-creation of Giovanni Battista Piranesi´s objects are on view at the Museo di Roma until October 15th 2017. The Factum Foundation and the Fondazione Cini have published a free, online version of the 2014 catalogue of the exhibition Diverse Maniere: Piranesi, Fantasy and Excess.

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Recovering Lost Heritage

The National Museum of Antiquities of Leiden will show the two Lamassu recorded at the British Museum and re-materialized at Factum Arte, as part of the exhibition Nineveh - heart of an ancient empire. They will then be donated to the Ashurbanipal Library Project at the University of Mosul.