(Artec Leo 3D: Santa Clara, CA ) -- For more than 2,000 years, Alexander the Great’s tomb has been lost to time, with countless searches leading to dead ends. The team behind Expedition Unknown set out to cover digs, with archaeologists on the verge of solving this historical mystery. Having looked under buildings and inside other tombs, the chase led the TV docuseries to the British Museum and the sarcophagus of St. Mark. With historians speculating that the sarcophagus might have originally belonged to Alexander, the team headed to Venice, where the missing lid was found with Macedonian inscriptions. However, due to its fragility and immovability, direct physical verification remained a challenge.

To do so, the team leveraged a state-of-the-art, wireless 3D scanning device called Artec Leo to rapidly and accurately digitize the artifact and send it straight to the museum for verification. This incredibly detailed model turned out to be an exact match and provided the long-awaited evidence of its connection to Alexander.

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