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Traveling Treasures: How 3D Technology Connects Liberians to Their History

2025 · SAPIENS

Stevens and Laurore. 2025. Article in SAPIENS.

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Summary

Traveling Treasures is a project led by anthropologists that places Liberians in direct contact with dispersed cultural heritage through immersive technologies designed to bridge continents and histories.

The article shows how 3D and VR methods can do more than document artifacts. It frames immersive access as a way to reconnect people, collections, and historical knowledge across distance.

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