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In 2012, Khartabil was arrested, and the original project and open source files were lost. Barry Threw took over as director of the project, renamed #NEWPALMYRA, and a community of developers, modelers, and archaeologists began collaborating to model, restore, and later recreate from scratch those historical structures captured on film and camera.
A project to restore Region XIV was under consideration in the early 1990s, as well as the creation of "a true and authentic digital map of ancient Rome" to establish a database and create "an illustrated manual for everyone." [313] Gismondi's model covers 240 m². [314]
Mapping Ancient Athens is a project by a Greek non-profit Dipylon, launched in 2021, that aims to map and provide an interactive digital portal to explore the archaeological remains and historical data from more than 1500 rescue excavations conducted across Athens over the past 160 years. The project created a searchable map interface that ...
Palmyra (/ p æ l ˈ m aɪ r ə / pal-MY-rə; Palmyrene: 𐡶𐡣𐡬𐡥𐡴 (), romanized: Tadmor; Arabic: تَدْمُر, romanized: Tadmur) is an ancient city in central Syria. It is located in the eastern part of the Levant , and archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early ...
After the series of regional maps, there are two general geographical maps: Ancient Italy (with the inscription “Commendatur Italia locorum salubritate, coeli temperie, soli ubertate”) Modern Italy (with the inscription “Italia artium studiorumque plena semper est habita”). At the beginning and at the end of the gallery:
An example of this can be seen in the work of Sir Arthur Evans at the ancient city Knossos, an archaeological site on the Greek island of Crete. Evans, a British archaeologist, excavated the site beginning in 1901 and was able to preserve and restore much of the original architecture.
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The wall where the map was originally mounted. The Forma Urbis Romae or Severan Marble Plan is a massive marble map of ancient Rome, created under the emperor Septimius Severus between AD 203 and 211. Matteo Cadario gives specific years of 205–208, noting that the map was based on property records. [1]