Research
Melite Civitas Romana Project


is an international interdisciplinary collaborative excavation and remote sensing project of the Roman Domus of Rabat and of the nearby urban district of the ancient city of Melite, in Malta, run in partnership with Heritage Malta, University of North Alabama and Intercontinental Archaeology. In 2019, a team of USF IDEx completed the virtualization of the entire complex of the Domus including the related Museum and its collection of Roman antiquities using a combination of techniques such as terrestrial laserscanning, ground and drone digital photogrammetry and close range 3D scanning in order to produce boost the public engagemen