Beating ISIS Via 3D Printing

ISIS militants have brought down the temple of Baalshamin, a 2,000-year-old relic, the Assyrian Palace at Khorsabad, Hatra the capital of the Parthinian Empire and ruined artifacts at the Mosul Museum, the Mosul Public Library and of course, the city of Nimrud. In the last year alone, ISIS has destroyed dozens of churches and archaeologically significant sites in their efforts to remove all evidence of 'non-Islamic' history and 'idolatrous objects' from the territory they control. Now scientists from Harvard and Oxford say they plan to turn the tide by sending a "flood" of 3D cameras to the region so that people can scan and photograph historically significant buildings and artifacts to preserve them from politically-motivated obliteration, through the Million Image Database Project. You can read the whole story here: http://3dprint.com/92473/million-ima...abase-project/
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