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  • My name is Dr. Monica Hanna

  • I am a mother, archaeologist and a scholar,

  • and I use Google to help preserve Egypt's heritage.

  • Egyptians are interested in their past,

  • but research about Egyptian heritage

  • has mainly been done in the west.

  • 95 percent of students

  • have never been to a temple before.

  • And if we do not connect

  • the people of the present with their past

  • this past will not live.

  • I remember when I was a student

  • sometimes books were not in Egypt at all.

  • But now Google has made

  • all the references available

  • at the tip of our hands.

  • Something that used to take three months

  • takes now three seconds or three minutes.

  • My students can visit

  • places that they can't access.

  • And we can look at

  • potential archaeological sites

  • from space.

  • You can see the borders,

  • you can see the places,

  • even if it's under the sand.

  • So we do space archaeology.

  • Technology today can help us

  • save our heritage

  • through documentation, through accessibility,

  • through virtual visits.

  • And I think this will get people more connected.

  • If we can give people access

  • we have a better chance

  • at preserving this heritage

  • for the future generations.

My name is Dr. Monica Hanna

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