Palmyra in Context: An Intelligent Reality Application to Revive the Victimized "Bride of the Desert"*

Symbolic buildings and cities have long been targeted and still are being targeted raising the importance of safeguarding the world’s architectural heritage record, and our cultural memory. This article looks at a series of actions aimed at devastating historic cities and cultural heritage, and examines 3D visualization with Intelligent Reality as a new way to "post-trauma reconstruction". The method of modeling and reconstructing the lost heritage is demonstrated with an application to Palmyra.