thumb|Temple of Bel rendering NEWPALMYRA (also known as the New Palmyra Project) is an effort to reconstruct the ancient city of Palmyra as an immersive virtual environment, based on archaeological and other clues. The project was started from photos taken by Bassel Khartabil, who had been taking care of Palmyra since 2005. He began building 3D models of the ancient city, with support from Al Aous Publishers. In 2012, Khartabil was arrested by the Assad regime, and the original project and open source files were lost. Barry Threw took over as director of the project, renamed it #NEWPALMYRA, br
thumb|Temple of Bel rendering NEWPALMYRA (also known as the New Palmyra Project) is an effort to reconstruct the ancient city of Palmyra as an immersive virtual environment, based on archaeological and other clues. The project was started from photos taken by Bassel Khartabil, who had been taking care of Palmyra since 2005. He began building 3D models of the ancient city, with support from Al Aous Publishers. In 2012, Khartabil was arrested by the Assad regime, and the original project and open source files were lost. Barry Threw took over as director of the project, renamed it #NEWPALMYRA, brought together a community of developers, modelers, and archaeologists and began collaborating to model, restore, and later recreate from scratch those historical structures captured on film and camera.
In 2015, the Islamic State captured Palmyra and subsequently destroyed some of its famous historical sites. In late 2015, the Institute for Digital Archaeology began contributing to the New Palmyra Project, sending archaeologists with cheap 3D cameras to capture any further structures that ISIL might decide to destroy.
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