I checked the classics' department website at the U of A for the classes that they're offering, and holy fuck, they're so cool! Check this out:

HUMN 3923H, section 009: Digital Pompeii

The construction of a 3D, searchable database of wall paintings and mosaics from Pompeii, using 3D and and game engine software.

or this:

HUMN 3923H, section 007: Visualizing the Roman City

Over the course of the semester, students will learn how to reconstruct the buildings of Ostia using 3D software like Cinema 4D and Sketchup, apply fresco and mosaic decoration using Photoshop, produce animated fly-throughs of the city using rendering software, and import their models into a game engine.

However, the goal of this class is not simply to learn software, but to explore how 3D visualization can help us better imagine and understand Roman urban life. We will learn about Roman construction techniques, about how and why they decorated the way they did, and about how urban spaces were perceived and experienced differently by different social classes. We will also consider "instant decay," that is, how fire, flooding, refuse, and squatting likely affected urban space. Hence our goal is NOT to produce a perfect, sterile model of a Roman town, but something that can help us understand 'real' Roman life better.

Holy fuck on a stick! I never dreamed that my education could be rendered so thoroughly obsolete by developments in the field. Sure, I considered the possibility of some miraculous archaeological dig yielding treasures which could turn the field upside down (" . . and so the evidence clearly demonstrates that Athens had a king, the gods were actually characters in a popular traveling puppet show rather than worshiped deities, and Julius Caesar was, in fact, a highly skilled mime, and in no way a political figure. So sorry, our mistake . . ."), but this?

My professors are brilliant at keeping their department relevant.