After ISIS militants were driven out of Palmyra last March, it would be less than a year before they returned to take over the historical site again in December. In the brief period of time between occupations, however, archaeologists and historians rushed to salvage what they could from the shattered remnants of the ancient artifacts that ISIS had destroyed. While many of those rescued artifacts had been damaged, they've been able to be at least partially restored in many cases, both digitally and physically, with 3D technology. Among those items were a pair of funerary busts from the second century - one depicting a man, the other a woman, whom historians believe were part of a local family of wealthy merchants. Salvaged from Palmyra's museum after the site was retaken by Russian and Syrian forces, the damaged artifacts were taken to Beirut and then to Rome, where a team of experts from the Institute for Conservation and Restoration (ICR) have been working for the past two months to make them whole again. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/165423/3d-technol...ian-artifacts/