Hajr-e-Aswad (Black Rock of Kaaba) Image Collection for Scientific Analysis - 300 DPI + 100 Image Microgrid w/ Upscaled Resolution

The Government of Saudi Arabia have broken up images of Hajr-e-Aswad for the very first time to view in highly detailed resolution. The original repository is near difficult to find for the average person, so the closest image of a full picture has been upscaled to 300 DPI through outsourcing and been edited, cropped, and gridded as a personal endeavor. Image usage is fair use and for scholarly work, or image-based scientific studies of the Hajr-e-Aswad. This may have potential usage for predicting any variations of validity, authenticity, coloring, mineral analysis, along with heatmapping for the stone's ridges. With permission of the government, chemical analysis for a small sample and multiple trips to Mecca could be within scope. I, however, am Coptic Orthodox and this is thus far a scientific endeavor in which the outermost respect is given to my Muslim colleagues who are trying to increase public inquiry on historically significant areas of interest. At the very least, the Government of Saudi Arabia, the Courtesy General Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques, and the ministry's Digital Photography School, did do a great service in terms of the quality and time to compose these images to begin with. The work of the students and government officials put into this image is breathtaking, and hopefully this collection that derives from that work could be of use as a dataset.