The aim of the UCSD project is to build digital doubles of every single piece of stone used in the ancient city’s construction and make these available to researchers, conservationists, epigraphers (who translate ancient writing), and the public into perpetuity, says (researcher Scott] McAvoy.For the digital and (multiple) physical reconstruction of the Arch of Triumph, which was destroyed by ISIS, see here and links.
For many posts on the ancient metropolis of Palmyra, its history and archaeology, the Aramaic dialect once spoken there (Palmyrene), and the city's tragic reversals of fortune, now trending for the better, start here (cf. here) and follow the links.
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