A drone nicknamed Indiana Jones
is being used to create a 3D map of a southern Italian city
buried in a 1688 earthquake, termed a "medieval Pompeii".
The drone uses laser impulses like a radar to provide
information for relief sketches of the underground medieval
city, Cerreto Vecchia, the city beneath Cerreto Sannita in the
province of Benevento, about an hour's drive northeast of
Pompeii.
The project will take place in various stages, the first of
which is the current 3D mapping.
Once the mapping is complete, an archeological dig is
planned, to be followed by restoration work, artifact
cataloging, and a 3D reconstruction of the site.
The project is being financed by the Ministry of Education
and carried out by the group Progetto Provaci.
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