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CTOnews.com, October 4 (Xinhua)-- Apple recently wrote that iPad Pro has changed the way archaeologists preserve the history of Pompeii.

It's a Tuesday morning. The excavation of the ancient city of Pompeii by the archaeological team went on in the last week, and everyone was busy at work. In addition to tools that have been used by archaeologists for centuries, such as shovels, buckets, brushes and picks, this time they also used a new device: iPad Pro.

In an ancient Roman kitchen in the ancient city of Pompeii, Dr Jordan Rogers used iPad Pro to conduct 3D scans of the potholes being excavated by his team.

"iPad is an ideal archaeological machine." Dr. Emmerson said. Her team has been using iPad to record data for archaeological excavations since 2010. She praised iPad for revolutionizing the field archaeological work.

Dr Emmerson's main research subjects are ancient Roman groups, including women, the poor and slaves, who have long been excluded from traditional studies. This summer, she developed a new workflow for the team with iPad Pro as the core. She believes that with improved processing speed and battery life, lidar scanners and flexible Apple Pencil,iPad Pro will once again change the field archaeological work.

"Archaeological excavation is a destructive process: after a place has been excavated, the same work will never be repeated. Therefore, one of the first tasks of our work is to fully record all the relevant data so that future researchers can 'rebuild the site'." "iPad Pro collects data faster, more accurately, and more securely than any other tool, and has the processing power we need to aggregate and present information in an unprecedented way," Emmerson said.

In the autumn of 79 AD, Mount Mount Vesuvius erupted violently, erupting volcanic material that completely buried Pompeii. Seventeen years ago, a powerful earthquake severely damaged the city, and some archaeologists believe that Pompeii has fallen into decline between the two disasters.

This year's excavation, which lasts five weeks, is named the "Pompeii I.14 Project of Tulane University" according to the location of the target building in the urban grid. Dr Emmerson brought together archaeologists and college students on both sides of the Atlantic to excavate a commercial building. Previously, the building was thought to be a restaurant with a history dating back to the second or third century BC.

CTOnews.com learned that the project team also included a technical team co-led by Dr. Alex Elvis Badillo. Dr. Emmerson worked with him last year to pioneer new techniques for recording and publishing archaeological discoveries.

This summer, Dr Badillo and Dr Emmerson hope to achieve two technical goals: to fully implement a paperless workflow using a single device, and to create an online database that allows people to "rediscover" the site virtually. Dr. Badillo knew that iPad Pro and Apple Pencil could be used as the basis for his work, and he also chose the Esri toolkit group to work with TopHatch's Concepts App.

This has revolutionized the excavation program, especially the work of the team's two excavation directors, Dr. Jordan Rogers of Carlton College and Mary-Evelyn Farrior, a PhD student at Columbia University. The two men respectively supervised an independent tunnel at the scene and was responsible for guiding undergraduates to excavate and recording most of the data collected.

"in my past excavation work, I have been using paper, pencil or pen to record data." "coordinate paper is used when drawing, string and level are used to measure the position of objects," Rogers said. "you need different cameras to take pictures, and you have to upload photos manually when you get home. Everything is in a different place, and you have to work for hours every night to transfer the records of the day to the computer."

Dr. Emmerson watched while Mary-Evelyn Farrior recorded the data using an iPad Pro connected to the Miaoku keyboard. Farrior sketches tunnels on iPad Pro using Concepts, an App that helps archaeologists draw diagrams to scale.

Dr Rogers and his tunnel team are digging into the kitchen that brought many surprises the day before, and his only recording tools are iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.

Dr. Badillo customized Esri's ArcGIS Survey123 App to allow archaeologists to enter independent information about more than 50 categories on iPad Pro, including attachments such as photos and sketches.

In addition, Rogers also uses iPad Pro's lidar scanner combined with 3D Scanner App from Laan Labs to create a 3D map of the tunnel.

Allison Emmerson is holding an extremely rare gold coin, the Oris, which the team found during the excavation.

The digital team collected the gold coin and all the noteworthy artifacts for 3D scanning. The team aggregates the scan results and other information collected during the excavation to create an interactive database of the excavation site. In the future, anyone will be able to access the database online and "re-excavate" the site digitally-a groundbreaking advance in the field of archaeology.

Dr Alex Elvis Badillo used iPad Pro to scan the mask the team found in the kitchen pit in 3D.

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