The goal is to take advantage of the broader integrated multidisciplinary comparison with their interaction and collaboration. The present research is focused on analytical skills related to the space dimension of individual techniques and the integration of different methods: geophysical investigations in connection to survey techniques. The last one is more technically linked to the themes of visualization and communication in a user-friendly way, allowing different possible users to manage and query the data, selecting useful information according to their interests, using shared digital inventories as well as virtual or augmented reality visualization techniques. A second broad theme is that of 3D inventories and related historical information, which is necessarily connected to the need to use standards.
With a certain degree of schematization, it is possible to assert that the issues that at the international level arouse the greatest interests are the need for 4D recording (3D plus time), including multidisciplinary information, of different sources, formats and contents, and their sharing, distribution and dissemination to the users by the world-wide-web using ad hoc developed platforms and/or applications. In recent years, the debate on the cultural, social and economic value of promoting built heritage with the support of digitalization and digital systems has increased and developed in many directions. Essential elements of this approach include extensive sharing of new technologies, developments and results within the scientific community and outreach operations aimed at the general public, as recognized for several years. Nowadays, it is globally accepted that reconstructing the complete history of a cultural site, including structures of archaeological significance yet to be discovered and encompassing the sphere of immaterial cultural values, is the necessary approach for the proper preservation and valorization of Cultural Heritage (CH). This strategy enables the fruition development of the already discovered archaeological heritage, using modern criteria of valorization and conservation. The integration of 2D/3D mapping data concerning visible elements and hypothetical anomalies, together with the recovering in the same global reference system of underground documentation pertaining to the Theban Mapping Project, prefigure the enhancement of multi-temporal site representation. The application of modern and innovative methods of 3D metric survey enabled to achieve a complete 3D mapping of what is currently visible in the valley. The potentialities of using magnetic techniques as a complement to other non-invasive techniques in the search for structures of archeological significance have been explored. In the area SSW of the KV2 the GM gradient maps evidenced also a large semicircular anomaly which, up to now, has no explanation. GPR timeslices showed some interesting features in the area in front of the KV2 entrance where GM gradient map also presents localized anomalies. ERT new data around KV62, both inverted in 2D sections and added to the previous ones to perform a new global 3D inversion, confirm the previous results showing both conductive and resistive anomalies that have to be explained. The geophysical campaign focused on the acquisition of Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and high spatial density Geomagnetic (GM) data. Innovative 3D metric technologies and methods, based on terrestrial laser scanning (both static and mobile) and close-range photogrammetry were employed by the Geomatics team.
Topographic measurements in support of geophysical surveys and the achievement of a very large-scale 3D map of the Eastern VOK were the two main objectives of the geomatics campaign.
In October 2018, a team of geomatics and geophysics researchers coordinated by the Polytechnic University of Turin worked side by side in the VOK. Recent results within the framework of the collaborative project The Complete Geophysical Survey of the Valley of the Kings (VOK) (Luxor, Egypt) are reported in this article.