Armenian cultural heritage sites get tokenized on Solana blockchain

The task "Realm of Historia'' precocious announced its intentions to marque strides successful preserving Armenian taste practice done leveraging the usage of blockchain exertion and nonfungible tokens (NFTs).

In a departure from accepted methods, this inaugural seeks to digitize humanities artifacts and carnal humanities sites, starting with the "Realm of Historia: Carahunge X" integer plus collection.

Cointelegraph spoke with the 2 creators of Realm of Historia, Ivan Grantovsky and Ivan Krylov, astir however emerging technologies tin sphere civilization and link caller generations with history.

Source: Realm of Historia

At the halfway of Realm of Historia’s effort is the exertion of Solana blockchain, which the 2 developers said was chosen for ratio and transparency purposes. 

Krylov said portion of the inspiration for creating a level is the deficiency of engaging platforms that digitally contiguous taste practice and are transparent with however to enactment philanthropically.

“This is the portion for exertion to lick this problem. The exertion we're talking astir is the blockchain due to the fact that it provides a solution for the deficiency of transparency.”

The postulation "Realm of Historia: Carahunge X" aims to digitize the tangible essence of the Carahunge site, known arsenic the Stonehenge of Armenia, which dates backmost to 5487 BC. All the NFTs successful the postulation harvester creation and integer versions of the stones from the carnal site. 

Digital practice of a Carahunge stone Source: Realm of Historia 

In summation to digitizing pieces of taste heritage, the task besides aims to enactment section artists successful Armenia and has collaborations with entities similar the Yerevan Biennial Art Foundation (YBAF), A1 Art Space, and Latitude Art Space. 

1 | Born successful Yerevan, Armenia, amidst a household of artists, Lilit Eghiazaryan's travel successful the realm of creation was predestined pic.twitter.com/LEwznJfVB5

— Realm of Historia (@RealmofHistoria) December 8, 2023

The founders of Realm of Historia said they spot this task playing a pivotal relation successful bridging taste divides, empowering section artists, and showcasing Armenia’s taste richness done emerging tech.

“The astir important happening is that our projects are astir the existent beingness impact, that you bash thing digitally and it impacts the existent world.”

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The task has a physical-digital facet successful the signifier of a QR codification accompanying each NFT that tin beryllium scanned and redeemed successful section cafes, museums and different sites successful Armenia that person partnered with the project, they said.

“You're not lone helping the satellite and taste preservation, but you're a portion of a community.”

This inaugural aligns with a broader planetary inclination recognizing blockchain's imaginable successful taste practice preservation. The decentralized and transparent quality of blockchain ensures a reliable grounds of humanities assets, guaranteeing their unaltered accessibility for aboriginal generations.

In a akin task successful Ukraine, a section art depository utilized blockchain digitization and NFTs to papers and sphere creation and taste practice during wartime.

More recently, The Sandbox Web3 metaverse level collaborated with the British Museum to bring creation and past to the metaverse successful physical-digital experiences.

The squad down Realm of Historia besides plans to physique “The Atrium” oregon a “virtual depository hall” wherever users tin participate a 3D lobby dedicated to taste practice and the sites represented by the project. 

“You tin say, the integer ark for taste heritage. The Atrium is aimed to gully the attraction of the younger generation.”

Last year, the land of Tuvalu, which is rapidly sinking into the sea, announced akin plans to physique a integer mentation of itself to sphere its past arsenic it faces erasure owed to clime change.

The Realm of Historia founders said their extremity is to yet spell beyond Armenia and physique collections “everywhere we tin each implicit the world.” They said they're successful talks astir imaginable preservation projects successful Malta, Italy, Cambodia and Georgia.

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