2,000-year-old house rebuild using 3D

Researchers have used 3D technology to reconstruct a house in Pompeii to show what life may have been like for the people of the ancient Roman city about 2,000 years ago.

By combining traditional archaeology with 3D technology, researchers at Lund University in Sweden managed to reconstruct the house to its original state before the volcano eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

In 1980, the Pompeii city curator invited the international research community to help document the ruin city, before the state of the finds from the volcano eruption would deteriorate even further. The Swedish Pompeii Project was therefore started at the Swedish Institute in Rome in 2000.

The project now also includes a new branch of advanced digital archaeology, with 3D models demonstrating the completed photo documentation. The city district was scanned during the field work in 2011–2012 and the first 3D models of the ruin city have now been completed.