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By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers have reconstructed a house in Pompeii before the volcanic eruption.
One of the Italy’s most popular attractions, Pompeii was preserved under ash from a volcanic eruption in 79AD and rediscovered in the 18th century.
Pompeii was home to about 13,000 people when the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, with a force equivalent to 40 atomic bombs, buried the town under ash, pumice, pebbles and dust.
Now, for the first time ever, people can take a tour of what a typical house in the ancient city looked like before the eruption.
Using 3D technology and traditional archaeology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed to reconstruct a house to its original state.
A statue is pictured at the ancient archaeological site of Pompeii.
The house, which belongs to a fictional man named Caecilius Lucundus, shows what it was like to live in Pompeii.
“By combining new technology with more traditional methods, we can describe Pompeii in greater detail and more accurately than was previously possible”, says Nicoló Dell´Unto, digital archaeologist at Lund University.
Sоurсe: stuff.co.nz
