Interactive computer graphics designed for protein crystallography has also helped visualize a 5,000-year-old excavation site in three dimensions. Tomorrow's archaeologists stand to benefit from this marriage of the very old and the very new.
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Ottaway, B., Sawyer, L. & Miller, A. Archaeology gets graphic. Nature 323, 651–652 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/323651a0
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