Aksum, Reimagined — architectural utopia study, Thomas Hagos, 2026.
Original scene and composition: CC BY 4.0. Three.js: MIT.

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Buildings, marketplace, planting, clothing and movement are interpretations, not archaeological reconstruction. Church footprint polygons are sourced; elevations and details are photo-informed approximations. Stelae are original schematic models using published dimensions. No Zamani meshes appear in the city, image or video. The page includes Zamani's official Sketchfab viewers, loaded on demand, with attribution. Those scans were not downloaded or redistributed.

Research sources:
https://zamaniproject.org/site-ethiopia-aksum-stelae-field.html
https://www.zamaniproject.org/digital-heritage-archive.html
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/15/
https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/458/
https://whc.unesco.org/document/123411
https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/monumental-architecture-and-stelae-of-the-aksumite-empire
https://publications.dainst.org/books/dai/catalog/view/2050/2501/4644

Model source and full assumptions:
https://github.com/Flex-commits/30-days-mapping/tree/main/day08-aksum-built/three-d