3D Outputs for an Archeological Site: The Priene Theater

This paper critically analyzes some of the results of the International Summer School Priene—Architecture and Archaeology. Survey, Documentation and Design at Priene. The archaeological site of Priene was included in 2018, by Turkey’s delegation to UNESCO, within the provisional list of properties considered cultural and/or natural heritage of outstanding universal value; thus eligible for inclusion in the World Heritage List. The subject of the study concerns the theater, one of the most relevant areas of the archaeological site. A photogrammetric survey of the theater’s area was done during the educational experience. The paper presents a workflow from the initial input phase, of digital acquisition, to the output phase, of data restitution by creating a three-dimensional model. The resulting model obtained, for research and dissemination purposes, was used to experiment with Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications to show the theater’s original splendor, now in a good state of preservation but still an archaeological ruin.