Feb. 20-21, 2017 VIRTUAL HERITAGE CAIRO 1st INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
Sustaining Heritage in the Digital Age
Towards Virtual environments for Middle Easts’ Cultural Heritage
New Frontier for digital Preservation of Heritage in the Middle east was held at the
National Museums of Egyptian Civilization, the best place to host us. The National
Research Institute for Astronomy and Geophysics and its President: Professor Hatem
Odah and Project Lead: Professor Gad El-Gady, the President of the National Institute
of Oceanography and Fishery, organized & managed the project activities in Egypt and
the generous hosting of VHC Colloquium and training workshops in Egypt.
The director of JSPS Cairo Research Station, Dr. Fukami provided the session of
“Visualization the Time and Space Surrounding Water; Connecting Water Heritage to
Historical Network and Space under the Muslim Rulers in Medieval Time”. This station
attempts to visualize histories and heritage especially related to water, such as banks,
waterways, wells, bridges, ports and etc.. To construct the facilities of water
management was almost large scale civil engineering works so it requires long term
and great care, therefore it means the duties and responsibilities of Muslim rulers to
manage the territory in medieval time. Until the Modern times, water facilities also were
connected the route deeply, through which humans, materials and information were
moved. We will challenge to begin from heritage as the points, to broaden to the
historical waterways and tracks as the linear, more to expand to the villages and cities,
to territory.