Researchers have used 3D technology
to reconstruct a house in Pompeii, the ancient town city wiped out by the eruption
of a volcano two millennia ago, to show what life may have been like for its
people. By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at
Lund University is Sweden have managed to complete the detailed reconstruction
of a wealthy man’s bungalow. In 1980, the Pompeii city curator invited the international
research community to help document the ruins before they suffered further
damage. Thus began the Swedish Pompeii Project at the Swedish Institute in Rome
in 2000. The town-city, destroyed in AD 79, was scanned during field work in
2011-2012. Among other things, the researchers have uncovered floor surfaces
from AD 79, performed detailed studies of the building development through
history, cleaned and documented three large wealthy estates, a tavern, a
laundry, and several gardens. In one garden, they discovered that some of the
taps of a fountain were on at the time of the eruption. In a shop, they found
three intact windows (made of translucent crystalline gypsum) from ancient
Rome.
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