Manuscriptology and Digital Humanities - eHeritage project: Digitalization of Gandharan Artefacts (DiGA)
The SAI cordially invites you to the presentation about eHeritage Project: Digitization of Gandharan Artefacts (DiGa), to be presented online on Friday, Nov. 10 between 9:15 - 10:45.
Since 2021, the BMBF-funded eHeritage project Digitization of Gandharan Artefacts (DiGA) has been documenting a collection of ca. 1500 Buddhist sculptures preserved in the Dir Museum in Chakdara, Province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. These have been excavated in a dozen of acvhaeological sites around present-day Chakdara by the Directorate of Archaeology and Museum, KP and the Department of Arcaheology of the Peshawar University in the 1960s and 1970s. The DiGA team completed its final photographic campaign in May and has published an important portion of the collection on HeidICON, the multimedia platform of the University of Heidelberg´s Library.
