All’Alba della Scrittura

Today is the inauguration day of the exhibition: “All’Alba della Scrittura: Le prime forme di amministrazione contabile nel mondo egeo”. The exhibition will guide you through a journey that starts from the II millennium BC: Was writing invented “once”? Where was it invented first? Why do we need to write? The location will be the …

Reverse engineering the minting process

In the exhibition Visual Archaeology thanks to 3D digital copies and 3D printing we showed the entire process of minting. Starting from a cast copy of a Syracusan coin, thanks to the structured-light 3D scanner Scan in a Box, it was possible to obtain a digital copy of the object. The “digital coin” was used, …

Parthenon 3D

One of the key-pieces from the exhibition Visual archaeology surely was the 1:100 scaled replica of the Parthenon: a huge 3D printed model 70 cm long. The model is composed by 3 pieces and so it’s possible to interact with the structure and also visualize the interiors, such as the magnificent Athena Parthenos statue “hidden” …