BBC NEWS | Europe | Shedding light on the Catacombs of Rome

BBC NEWS | Europe | Shedding light on the Catacombs of Rome

lyanna_beth pointed this story out to me last week, but I had forgotten to post it.

A team of 10 Austrian and Italian archaeologists, architects and computer scientists are engaged in a three-year project to create the first fully comprehensive three-dimensional image of Rome's Catacombs using laser scanners. They recently started with the largest catacomb, Saint Domitilla, just outside the Italian capital.