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Africa's major world heritage sites, like the rock-hewn St Giyorgis church at Lalibella, in Ethiopia and Mali's great mosque of Djenne will soon be accessible in virtual form. An innovative project aimed at their preservation is underway led by Heinz Ruther, professor of Geomatics at the University of Cape Town. Using latest techniques in laser scan and computer technology, Prof Ruther and colleagues are creating three-dimensional models and virtual landscapes of several Unesco World Heritage sites with the primary objective of immortalizing the buildings and structures in digital form, in case they are destroyed. Read more here: bbc news.