Virtual heritage or
cultural heritage and technology is the body of works dealing with information and communication technologies (
ICT) and their application to
cultural heritage, such as
virtual archaeology. Virtual heritage and cultural heritage have independent meanings:
cultural heritage refers to sites, monuments, buildings and objects "with historical, aesthetic, archaeological, scientific, ethnological or anthropological value", whereas
virtual heritage refers to instances of these within a technological domain, usually involving
computer visualization of artefacts or
Virtual Reality environments.