Radio-Past - Radiography of the Past (2009-2013)
Radiography of the past. Integrated non-destructive approaches to understand and valorise complex archaeological sites.
In one of these Roman cities, namely Ammaia in the Roman province of Lusitania (now Portugal), the newly gathered and highly detailed underground archaeological data allowed the making of a complete virtual reconstruction of the urban environment in the second century of our era. A video gave the virtual visitor a bird's eye view of the city and an interactive application, aimed at both the student of antiquity and the general public, provided an accurate picture of how a provincial town, created on the model of Rome, could be seen. The integration of software from the gaming industry with the very precise topographical models that arise from the non-invasive archaeological fieldwork is a European first for the total reconstruction of Roman Mediterranean cities.