ABSTRACT
Once Yuri Denisyuk’s single-beam hologram technique had become accepted by the academic authorities, it quickly became a standard research tool in Soviet archaeology. The southern states, in particular the Ukraine, with two thousand years of turbulent history, have always been a rich source of ancient artifacts. Farmers’ ploughs have unearthed so many of these in remote districts that it has become necessary to provide traveling exhibitions in order to bring the country’s ancient heritage to the people. All the major museums employ full-time holographers to record their treasures in three-dimensional form. These records are nearly always Denisyuk holograms, and are of the highest quality. Figure 7.1 is a photograph of one such example, which I took during a visit of one of these exhibitions to Britain.
