The Use of Photogrammetry in Archaeology and Multimedia Open-Air Performance in the Castle Square of Kato Paphos

The World Heritage Convention was designed in 1972 to protect cultural and natural sites of tremendous importance for the world community. 1980 is the year of putting Paphos, Cyprus on the UNESCO World Heritage List. 2011 is the year when the Paphos Agora Project (PAP) started under the direction of Prof. Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka. The aims of people who work for the benefit of Paphos include exploration, reconstruction of the public space of the agora and dissemination of the results with the use of interdisciplinary methods. Presented in this paper a multimedia open-air performance in the Castle Square of Kato Paphos - depicts how modern technologies not only can support archaeology, but also can be used to create a new interpretation of cultural heritage. The basis for this was the use of 3D photogrammetric models. The methodology of obtaining, developing and publishing photogrammetric data is the subject of this article.