Author(s)

Virgílio Hipólito Correia^1*, Nuno Rodrigues², Alexandrino Gonçalves²

¹Conimbriga Monographic Museum, Centre for the Study of Archaeology, Art and Heritage Sciences (CEAACP), Coimbra, Portugal.
²School of Technology and Management, Computer Science and Communication Research Centre, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal.

Recent work on the virtual reconstruction of a Roman town is presented, in the context of issues like conserving, presenting and communicating that cultural heritage to the general public. Re-constructions are developed using manual and procedural techniques, with the support of efficient and low-cost tools, using the internet for collaborative and dissemination purposes. This paper also intends to discuss general issues of the extent of scientific knowledge and the authenticity of communicated products.

Virtual Heritage, Procedural Modelling, Virtual Environments, Conimbriga

Correia, V. , Rodrigues, N. and Gonçalves, A. (2016) Reconstructing Roman Archaeological Sites: Theory and Practice
—The Case of Conimbriga. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 4, 122-132. doi: 10.4236/jss.2016.42017.