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Heritage, Volume 8, Issue 12

December 2025 - 54 articles

Cover Story: One of the world’s most famous shipwrecks is quietly disappearing. The SS Thistlegorm, sunk in the Red Sea during the Second World War, attracts thousands of divers each year; however, this popularity is accelerating its deterioration. This study presents the first site-wide, quantitative assessment of change on the wreck, using photo archives and repeat underwater photogrammetry surveys conducted in 2017 and 2022. By documenting structural change, artefact loss, and the movement of wreckage, the research demonstrates how high-resolution 3D recording can identify natural decay and human impact over time. The results highlight both the vulnerability of heavily visited underwater heritage and the power of digital monitoring to inform conservation, management, and stewardship. View this paper
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Articles (54)

  • Article
  • Open Access
300 Views
16 Pages

15 December 2025

The digital transformation of cultural heritage has expanded the availability of data while revealing structural forms of incompleteness. This study investigates how missing data are conceptualised in the scientific and design literature on digital c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
316 Views
20 Pages

13 December 2025

In the context of a study on selected fragments of ancient architecture belonging to a collection of the archaeological museum “Luigi Bernabò Brea” in Lipari (Aeolian Islands, Messina, Italy), we analysed, using the non-destructive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
611 Views
24 Pages

13 December 2025

This study explores how the Digital Dunhuang project transforms the heritage experience and the meaning-making of visitors, marking a shift from material conservation to digital presence. Drawing upon Freeman Tilden’s principles of heritage int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
533 Views
29 Pages

Legacy Data Management from Software to Warehouses: The Experience from the Archaeological Site of Phaistos (Greece)

  • Pietro Maria Militello,
  • Francesca Buscemi,
  • Serena D’Amico,
  • Giacomo Fadelli,
  • Thea Messina,
  • Erica Platania and
  • Flavia Toscano

13 December 2025

The topic of archaeological apothekes, i.e., storage areas not intended for display and not accessible to the public (depositi in Italian), has only recently received the attention it deserves, for reasons related to the history of research methodolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
316 Views
14 Pages

The Influence of Projection Lamps on the Colors of Early Silent Cinema Films

  • Daniel Vázquez,
  • Antonio Álvarez Fernández-Balbuena,
  • Irene Hernández,
  • Marian del Egido,
  • Patricia Uceda,
  • María Muñoz,
  • Javier Rellán and
  • Manuel Melgosa

13 December 2025

Quantitative data on the colors of early film productions is very scarce but may be useful for preserving these cultural assets and for guiding modern digitization processes. We measured the spectral transmittance of 46 small areas in 13 frames of fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
514 Views
20 Pages

Millennia of Mitochondrial Change: Tracing Haplogroup Variation in Lithuania

  • Ingrida Domarkienė,
  • Indrė Krastinaitė,
  • Justina Kozakaitė,
  • Ingrida Kavaliauskienė,
  • Henryk W. Witas,
  • Vaidutis Kučinskas and
  • Rimantas Jankauskas

12 December 2025

Background: A comprehensive temporal analysis of mtDNA haplogroup variation across Lithuanian history remains limited. This study investigates the mtDNA variation landscape during the Iron Age by comparing newly reported Iron Age individual mtDNA dat...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
241 Views
12 Pages

12 December 2025

This paper explores what heritage conservation might become when it listens differently—when it opens itself to relational, situated, and community-led practices of care. Beginning with the provocation “Museums? I don’t think this i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
245 Views
17 Pages

12 December 2025

The consolidation of mural paintings presents a significant challenge for conservators, as the treatments applied must not only be effective but also preserve the aesthetic qualities of the artwork. Ongoing research focuses on developing new products...

  • Article
  • Open Access
849 Views
30 Pages

12 December 2025

Fotis Kontoglou (1895–1965) was a prominent Greek painter and writer, known primarily for revitalizing byzantine painting in the 20th century and being one of the first artist-conservators in Greece active at this period. The current study repr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
681 Views
18 Pages

Identifying Pre-Existing Ballistic Trauma in Burnt Bone

  • Laura Hallett,
  • Irina Ellenberg,
  • Katya Essam,
  • Richard Critchley,
  • Kate Hewins and
  • Nicholas Márquez-Grant

12 December 2025

Distinguishing peri-mortem trauma from heat-induced trauma is often a challenging aspect of forensic anthropology casework where fire has been used as a means of concealing evidence. This paper aims to explore the extent to which peri-mortem ballisti...

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