Model of Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph,an 1800-year-obsolete Roman arch blown up by the extremist group last year, was made using 3D printing technologyA recreation of Palmyra’s Arch of Triumph was unveiled in recent York on Monday, or almost a year after Islamic State militants destroyed the original structure.
The 1800-year-obsolete Roman arch was blown up by the extremist group last October,but a team of archeologists at Oxford University’s Institute for Digital archeology (IDA) set approximately recreating it, in an act of resistance to Isis’s rampant acts of cultural destruction in Iraq and Syria. Related: Palmyra after Isis: a visual guide Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com