Armenian Cross Stone IV

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The cultural heritage requires constant protection and maintenance to stay preserved for so long as possible as the years are passing by. The attention of most renovating and heritage-focused bureaus goes to the most famous and popular cultures. Meanwhile, the less popular cultural heritage is on the edge of endangerment. Most of those unpopular cultural heritages are positioned in battlefields or hard-to-reach areas or don’t have enough touristic flow to draw attention. One of those cultural heritages is the Armenian heritage. Left behind on the unknown lands when the nomadic bandits haunted the folks preserving it. Now centuries have passed and this kind of heritage is still left there without a care. Most of them will be gone in no time without preserving and cultivating. Armenia has survived plenty of conflicts and battles such as the Armenian Genocide for example. But with each conflict, it lost a part of the land and its peoples. Leaving behind cultural heritage with no one to take care of. One of the most famous examples of Armenian heritage is called Khachkar, which roughly translates as Cross stone. Cross stones are mostly made of clay or sandstone. These are vertical tablets with plenty of ornaments. Cross sones are mostly found in Caucasian fields. By using this mold you can create a new Cross stone and thus also cultivating the Armenian heritage and preserving it from endangerment. You create a backup that can exist somewhere else on the earth. If you are new to 3D printing, there is an instruction attached to this thing showing you how to prepare print and use the mold.