Bringing the Past into the Present. Looking forward to Future of the Scientific Heritage of the Italian Projects in Sistan and Masjed-e jom‘e of Isfahān (Iran)

In this article it has been tried to give, briefly, an idea of those two projects under examination; one in Sistan and the other in the Great (Congregational) Mosque of Isfahan (Friday Mosque) (masjed-e jomʻe). It is noteworthy to understand how they were originated, and how one thinks right now of being able to continue them using new available approaches of the computer science. The continuation of those projects constitute the aim of a complex work at fully digitizing their graphic, photographic data, related to the large amount of materials and objects found during the excavations conducted. Many of the more detailed aspects of this approach will be further addressed to by Giulio Maresca, Enzo Cocca and Andrea Genito . Those projects were, as is well known, born more than fifty years ago on the basis of completely different ideas from those with which one could today imagine similar projects of excavation, restoration and management of cultural heritage, or like today would develop the same.