The purpose of this interdisciplinary project is to help the archaeologist to control, present and use the results of their work with the new information and communication technologies (ICT).

A particular ICT of most relevance to this work is Virtual Reality (VR). A virtual reality world is an virtual environment (VE) simulated on the computer through which a person can feel almost as a part of the real world (Allen et alii 2000, p. 1575). It is used in archaeology because it can offer:

This is the technology that can “bring to life” the past in a revolutionary way, this should take place at the end of each archaeological study.

The costs of archaeological excavations (often from public finances) and associated work should be returned to the citizen in a cultural way through understandable forms of presentation. Most published studies address only the specialists and not ordinary people. The citizen usually only comes in contact with archaeology through museums, where the information isn’t presented in the habitual context. Lately, there is a tendency to offer to the public archaeological information in the most accessible way, for example through virtual reconstructions. It is generally accepted that virtual reconstructions, from the archaeologist viewpoint, cannot be 100% accurate. This is because there may be more than one interpretation concerning a particular archaeological fact.

Therefore, it is important to ensure that the virtual reconstruction represents correctly in most cases only “the proportions and global data such that if an interpreter is unsure of any specific details, these can be bypassed, provided that the global idea is still expressed through its proportions” (Fernández 2001, 280).

Virtual reconstructions or models are also used for educating students that study archaeology, but also for the continuous education of the archaeologists. At the same time, the public can understand the presented subject easily.