Do you ever wish you could turn back time? A University of Nebraska-Lincoln group, led by architectural engineering assistant professor Ece Erdogmus, crosses many miles and centuries each summer. With her specialization in masonry restructures and a love of her homeland, Erdogmus leads restoration of a Roman temple from the third century C.E., in the ancient city of Antiocheia ad Kragos on Turkey's southern coast. She developed the project with art history professor Michael Hoff from UNL and professor Rhys Townsend from Clark University, and since 2005, several UNL students have joined the field work team. Funding has been provided by the National Science Foundation and Harvard Loeb Classical Library Foundation, as well as UNL funding.
Monday, July 20, 2009
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Ece has been at a conference in Africa the past couple of days, so Jake, Holly and I have been working on a short list of tasks while the crane is away. We've spent some time drawing and getting dimensions of different parts of the temple platform. Later this year we hope to create a render of what the temple would have looked like back in the day. I almost feel like a time traveler lately, because we've seen so many ancient sites. We went on a more complete tour of the town that our temple is a part of today. It's fun to imagine what the people there saw in their time and compare it to what we see now!
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