International Workshop of CULTURAL HERITAGE PROJECT:

RISK MAP FOR SAQQARA SITE (ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM)

Enhancement of the organisation and Capabilities to preserve Cultural Heritage Assets of Egypt

Risk Map for North Saqqara Site

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Site Information System:

Egyptological Data

Conservation Data

Environmental Data

Archaeological Map:

Old planimetries and Recent planimetries

Bibliography of general site maps

Georeferency

Saqqara Planimetry

Risk Analysis:

Vulnerability and Hazard analysis

 North Saqqara Risk Map

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The area’s richness led us to believe that the information platform, supporting the analysis of the management plan, could be based on a GIS system (Geographic Information System), a system which, by means of the geo-referring of data, can relate databases to the reference cartographies and visualise and cross data, creating new thematic maps.

These systems make it possible to relate the structure’s vulnerability to the risk degree of the area in order to create a risk scenario.

The GIS is the most suitable information model for supporting analysis of area management aiming at the established objectives, the first of which is the minimization of the environmental degradation impoverishing the site. In this phase, thus, the objective of the research was to understand the factors causing the structures’ degradation and vulnerability degree in detail, as well as the risk degree for the entire area if the current environmental situation persists.

The terms vulnerability and risk drove us to use the methods adopted by the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage to draw up the risk map for Italian cultural heritage.

That is why the project “Enhancement of the Organization and Capabilities to Preserve Cultural Heritage of Egypt” in this first stage of the programme was named “Risk Map for North Saqqara Site” by Fabrizio Ago, the project’s co-manager.

The “Risk Map for North Saqqara Site” is divided into different correlated operative phases:

• the first phase aims at the construction of the Site Information System (SIS) and includes: the collection of data, the creation and compilation of the database, the collection of existing plans, their geo-referring and the assembling of the new plan of north Saqqara; and, finally, linking the database with the new plan;

• the second phase aims at the accomplishment of the vulnerability and hazard analysis;

• the third phase aims at the achievement of the risk analysis.