3D exhibition of rock art opened in Moscow

UFA, 26 November 2019. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/.

In Moscow, a 3D exhibition of rock art opened for the first time. Copies of the ancient artists' works from the Kapova Cave in Bashkiria are the centerpiece of the exhibition.

“Through centuries and spaces” is the name of the rock art exhibition, which opened in the Great Hall of the Russian Historical Society in Moscow. The exhibition demonstrates the achievements of 3D technology, showing viewers copies of ancient images from remote regions of Russia, as close as possible to the originals, TASS reported. According to the director of the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Makarov, the exposition is of great educational significance. Looking at the works of primitive artists“, viewers are once again convinced that human history is not only political events and military conflicts but, of course, creativity and the ups of the human spirit,” said Makarov, opening the exhibition with Russian Historical Society chairman Sergei Naryshkin. “Rock art monuments included in the UNESCO World Heritage List lie at the heart of the exhibition, in particular, Kapova Cave in Bashkiria, Oglakhty in Khakassia, Onega and White Sea petroglyphs in Karelia,” TASS informed.