Advanced toolkits for interdisciplinary and enhanced study, conservation, and restoration in burial excavations and findings

Significant assemblages of human remains are constantly retrieved from archaeological excavations, offering valuable insights into past populations. Yet their scientific study is significantly heterogeneous, only a proportionately limited number of them become the subject of interdisciplinary research and systematic study. An equally small percentage of archaeological human remains is interpreted by appropriate information at archaeological museums, as museums lack tools to present complex bioarchaeological evidence. The EXCALIBUR project, aligned with ECCCH, proposes a holistic framework for enhanced study, conservation, and restoration of cultural heritage, based on digital twin technologies. It focuses on burial sites, excavation, artefacts, and human remains.

The project creates innovative, affordable, and easy-to-use tools to protect and restore heritage, co-designing solutions with experts and sharing them through the ECCCH platform for global impact.

The Cardinal Objective of EXCALIBUR is to create a holistic framework offering innovative tools and methods for enhanced study, conservation, and knowledge of cultural heritage (CH) objects focusing on burial excavations, remains, and findings through digital twins (DTs). This framework delivers usable, open-source, and cost-affordable toolkits via an interoperable, human-based platform, ensuring alignment with ECCCH infrastructure and validation by CH experts based on real user needs.

EXCALIBUR will define user needs and conduct ECCCH collaboration, develop AI/ML algorithms and build a human-centric, interoperable platform.
The project will create XR-empowered toolkits for enhanced study and data management tools for planning conservation/restoration, including advanced representations, validated through pilots and training.
The end-goal is to ensure ECCCH adoption for CH study, conservation/restoration, and professional training.

In this section, you will find the official documents produced during the project lifetime. Reports and deliverables will be made public as the project progresses. These documents will be essential to share the results of our work with the scientific community, policy makers, and the general public. We invite you to visit this page regularly to stay updated on the new documents published by our project. If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us.

For further information, visit EXCALIBUR website.