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DIGITALLY PRESERVING AND RESTORING ANCIENT OLYMPIA AS IT STOOD OVER 2,000 YEARS
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Ancient Olympia is home to institutions and ideals that have shaped the world as
we know it. Now, Ancient Olympia: Common Grounds—a new collaboration between the
Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and Microsoft—is harnessing AI to
digitally preserve and restore this rich site for future generations by bringing
its structures and cultural impact to life like never before.
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Visitors from around the world flock to Ancient Olympia to get a glimpse of its
“ruins,” the material remains of its glorious past. But this archaeological site
in Greece stands for much more than ancient history. The legacies that emerged
from this cultural crossroads—from the ancient Olympic Games to art and
architecture to civic ideals—remain as vivid and vital as ever.



Today, 27 major monuments and many minor ones still stand in Ancient Olympia.
Among them, the original Olympic Stadium. The temples of Zeus and Hera. The
workshop of the renowned sculptor Phidias. These monuments survived thousands of
years of weather, war, earthquakes, and modernization. They are meticulously
conserved and restored by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports. But they
are in need of digital preservation as well, to ensure that all the evidence of
the rich history and civil common ground values that the site was built upon is
handed over to future generations.

That’s why the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports is collaborating with
Microsoft to create Common Grounds, a digital revival project that aims to
preserve and restore valuable pieces of our past and empower global audiences to
embrace the idea of finding common ground through our shared history.

Now, with help from AI technology, viewers can explore Ancient Olympia as it
stood in its glory more than 2,000 years ago with an immersive experience that
allows fans of history, sports, arts, and culture to interact virtually with the
buildings and artifacts from the historic site.

> Common Grounds is a unique way of experiencing Greece’s proud cultural
> heritage. Visitors around the world can virtually visit the ancient site of
> Olympia and experience history firsthand using augmented reality technology.
> 
> Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece

But how exactly did technology make this digital preservation possible, helping
to accurately model the physical and cultural aspects of the site?

Through its AI for Cultural Heritage initiative, Microsoft partnered with
technology company Iconem, which specializes in digitizing historic sites in 3D,
to create the foundational model of Ancient Olympia. Using both on-the-ground
cameras and drones to take hundreds of thousands of images of the site,
Microsoft AI then processed the pictures to create models so precise, they
render as photo-realistic.


Watch as the Philippeion is digitally restored to its original form.

Of course, digitally recording and accurately representing all the details of
everyday life in Ancient Olympia was no small task. In the 3D experience,
buildings are recreated in lifelike detail, painstakingly researched by the
Hellenic Ministry’s expert archaeologists to be as true as possible to their
original forms. This includes historical timelines of the site’s changes over
time and depictions of artifacts from each period.

The extensive network of ruins includes a Gymnasium where athletes trained and a
Stadium that was home to the Olympic Games in honor of Zeus, the most important
of the Panhellenic Games, for the duration of which the participating cities
practiced ekecheiria—a declaration of ceasefire and temporary peace. These Games
were revived in 1896 and took place in the Panathenaic Stadium of Athens,
founding the modern Olympic Games.


The site of Ancient Olympia is recreated in precise digital detail, letting you
share in the cultural heritage of this breathtaking site.

> The project to digitally revive Ancient Olympia is a stunning achievement in
> cultural heritage, bringing together humanity and cutting-edge technology to
> benefit the world and empower coming generations with new ways to explore our
> past.
> 
> Brad Smith, President and Vice Chair, Microsoft

There are also temples to Hera and Zeus, where a grand sculpture created by
Phidias stood as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. And visitors can
also get a glimpse of daily life at structures where citizens gathered,
socialized, and conducted business during the five days of the Games. The hope
is that this experience can bring these structures to life and offer a valuable
insight into Greek history and culture.

But what makes the Common Grounds project particularly impactful is that anyone
can access it—whether they’re onsite in Olympia, visiting the new Athens Olympic
Museum, or halfway around the world at home.

Explore Ancient Olympia’s historical monuments in full 3D via the web-based
desktop and tablet experience. Visitors to the site can also share thoughts via
voice or text to reflect on our common ground and the ways people are
interconnected by our shared history and events.
Visit Common Grounds
The mobile app enables a rich augmented reality (AR) experience which brings the
monuments to life at real-world scale. Visitors onsite at Olympia will be able
to use the app to navigate through the monuments to see them as they once stood
over 2,000 years ago.
Download the app
The immersive Microsoft HoloLens 2 exhibition invites people to walk through the
digitally preserved site of Ancient Olympia. There, visitors are transported
back to 173 CE, where they are surrounded by the sights, sounds and virtual
monuments of the Ancient Games. This multi-sensory tour is housed at the Athens
Olympics Museum where audiences from all over the world can participate in this
revolutionary experience.
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Digitally preserving Ancient Olympia has created a time capsule of one of
history’s most important periods—brought to life in a realistic, engaging way
that was never before possible. This new form of digital archiving will continue
to offer a portal to another era, helping us understand what humanity has
achieved in the past, and reminding us what we’re capable of today.

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