ARCHEO&ARTE3D Lab | MAIS
(Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Abstract:
The use of technology to create potential synergies in archaeological field is the aim of the on-going join project between the Italian Archaeological Expedition to Ebla (Syria) and the laboratory Archeo&Arte3D of Digilab Sapienza University of Rome. The reconstruction of the Court of the Audiences of the Royal Palace G of Ebla (2450-2300 BC) has been chosen as pilot project. The large amount of photos can in fact allow a graphic 3D visualization of architectural structures through a careful elaboration of data. A digitalization and metadata of archive documents will be produced aiming at the presentation of different hypothetical reconstructions according to the principles of analogy and verisimilitude to integrate missing data and architectural features that have not been recovered in the archaeological excavation. Communication and popularization are just one of the recent trends of archaeology: virtual reconstructions, both restricted and free, provide a very useful and essential key for the comprehension and fruition of ancient spaces and cultures that once occupied those buildings and places. Furthermore, the present situation in Ebla as in all Syria offers the occasion for a fruitful debate on the protection of archaeological heritage, the fruition and elaboration of archaeological data: graphic processes and elaboration of old archaeological data and documents that imply hypotheses of reconstructions might in fact constitute the largest set of information for a scientific debate, on the one hand, and give the opportunity of continuing the research thinking of solutions that can then be adopted to recover the archaeological sites and integrate old data with the new post-war situations.
Keywords: 3D, immersivity, user experience