A 2000 years old Pompeii home was reconstructed

Scientists have used 3D technology to rebuild, in digital format, a house that belonged to wealthy citizens of ancient city of Pompeii, demonstrating how a home might have looked before the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.

The initiative is part of the Swedish Pompeii Project, which was born in 2000 in order to document in detail an entire neighborhood called the ''island'', reports Live Science. It includes three large properties, a tavern, a laundry, a bakery and several gardens. "By combining new technology with more traditional methods, we can describe Pompeii in greater detail and more accurately than was previously possible," says one of the researchers, digital archaeologist Nicoló Dell´Unto.

Led by Anne-Marie Leander Touati, an archaeologist at the University of Lund, the Swedish team used traditional methods of excavation, but advanced techniques such as laser scanning and drones to digitally reconstruct a neighborhood of ancient Rome. Researchers have now completed the first 3D models demonstrating how this section looks like before the area to be engulfed by a thick layer of volcanic ash.

Using the new discovery, the archaeological sources brought to light over time, old photos with frescoes lost and also drawings from the nineteenth century depicting sections of the site, scientists have reconstructed in detail the house where a man named Caecilius Iucundus lived with his family.

A new video tour designed by the researchers working on this project offer a new perspective over the house, even on the guest room where the man was receiving its business partners in the morning and where the women of the house spend their afternoons.
The Swiss team also made many other discoveries such as a set of three intact ancient windows, made of transparent crystalline gypsum, found in one of the sites, as written on the Lund University website.