Virtually restored 6 UNESCO World Heritage Sites

From Palmyra to the ancient city of Jerusalem, an Australian insurance company is launching a campaign to defend these monuments.

It had to be an Australian insurance company, Budget Direct , that joined forces with industrial engineer Erdem Batirbek and architects Jelena Popovic and Keremcan Kirilmaz to reconstruct as faithfully as possible (virtually, of course) up to six historic monuments declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO... but which are in ruins.

Considered by the international organisation as “endangered” areas, the company has decided to resurrect transcendental works of human construction in all their splendour. There is the example of the fortified city of Hatra , in present-day Iraq, the amphitheatre of Leptis Magna , a Carthaginian (and later Roman) city in Mediterranean Libya or the ancient city of Jerusalem , with its enormous walls 12 metres high and 2.5 metres wide that ran for just over 4 kilometres.

Thanks to gifs that explain the process step by step, the company accompanies a small explanatory text why these locations were chosen: the Temple of Bel, in Palmyra , in the center of present-day Syria, as a place that combined Greco-Roman techniques with Persian influences; the fortifications of Portobelo and San Lorenzo , in the province of Colón, in Panama, because it was a crucial enclave for the Spanish crown in the Caribbean and mixed a medieval air with neoclassical designs; and finally, Nan Madol , a spectacular labyrinth of small artificial islands with canals joined by rocks and coral in Micronesia.

1. Fortified city of Hatra, Iraq.

2. Leptis Magna Amphitheater, Libya.

4. Ancient city of Jerusalem, Israel.

4. Temple of Bel in Palmyra, Syria.

5. Fortifications of Portobelo and San Lorenzo, Panama.

6. Nan Madol, Micronesia.