Civil Engineering and Architecture 11(1): 51-63, 2023 http://www.hrpub.org DOI: 10.13189/cea.2023.110105 Digitize the Architectural Heritage in Egypt to Overcome the Repercussions of COVID-19 R. Yossef 1,2,* , M. R. Abdallah 3 , W. A. Nour 4 1 Department of Architecture, Architectural Studies Major at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt 2 Department of Architecture, Modern Academy of Engineering and Technology in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt 3 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt 4 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt Received July 7, 2022; Revised October 21, 2022; Accepted November 14, 2022 Cite This Paper in the Following Citation Styles (a): [1] R. Yossef, M. R. Abdallah, W. A. Nour, " Digitize the Architectural Heritage in Egypt to Overcome the Repercussions of COVID-19," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 51 - 63, 2023. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2023.110105. (b): R. Yossef, M. R. Abdallah, W. A. Nour (2023). Digitize the Architectural Heritage in Egypt to Overcome the Repercussions of COVID-19. Civil Engineering and Architecture, 11(1), 51 - 63. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2023.110105. Copyright©2023 by authors, all rights reserved. Authors agree that this article remains permanently open access under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International License Abstract The world has faced a lot of unprecedented economic and social repercussions in its modern history. For instance, the spread of many diseases such as Covid- 19, wars, and climate change. That led to stagnation in many sectors of development. As a result of these events, the governments tended to mitigate the impact of these repercussions by exploiting new technological tools and techniques, such as extended reality, digital marketing, and website development. In fact, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the tourism sector around the world in the last 3 years. And whereas Egypt owns a third of the world's monuments, which represent the architectural legacies spread over large and multiple areas. From this point of view, this study discusses how to combine these monuments in an integrated project through digitizing architectural heritage on a website that works with modern technology techniques, especially extended reality technology to promote the tourism sector in Egypt, hence increasing the national income. On the other hand, this study also aimed to formulate a hypothetical vision of how to preserve, document, develop and invest in all archaeological buildings at the lowest possible cost, help to immerse yourself in it either completely or partially, query, and identify its elements and components textually, audibly, visually, and sensually. To achieve the study objectives, four steps were undertaken. First, the selection of a case study and virtual documentation of architectural heritage; second, a practical experiment was implemented using the extended reality technology; third, a questionnaire was conducted for the users of the experiment; and fourth, an evaluation by statistical analysis was implemented. From these four steps, a map of Egypt for architectural heritage was carried out. This map not only helps to revitalize the tourism sector but also enhances electronic documentation, and the restoration, and rehabilitation process of the monuments. Hence, preserving the cultural heritage of Egypt. Keywords Digital Documentation, 3D Documentation, Publishing Architectural Heritage, Extended Reality (XR), Virtual Documentation (VD) 1. Introduction The whole world shared an overview of the economic and social impacts of the 19 COVID viruses unprecedented in recent history, where the specific nature of each country's impact is bound by nature to bear the consequences. So, it is necessary to use modern technology, especially augmented reality technology, to overcome these consequences or any other obstacle, preserve the human heritage of architecture, art, and humanities, and promote, invest and disseminate. However, many challenges need to be considered to apply the above. By studying Egypt's case as a model, we find that the tourism industry has been greatly affected by these impacts, as it has such a