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Turning a 2,400-year-old in situ collapse into a testable reconstruction

Reconstructing a 2,400-year-old building sounds like a straightforward 3D modeling problem, until most of the structure is missing, the remaining evidence is fragmented, and every decision has to be traceable to either physics or history. That was the constraint facing a team of archaeologists and digital reconstruction specialists working at Selinunte, a Greek colony in Sicily destroyed in 409 BCE. In 2021, a trench dug in an unexcavated area uncovered a rare in situ collapse: a roof preserved as it fell, sealing a domestic space and its contents beneath it. What followed was less a traditional dig than a tightly controlled reconstruction pipeline, one that turned partial ruins into a...

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Turning a 2,400-year-old in situ collapse into a testable reconstruction

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