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factum first attracted international attention in 2007 by creating a replica of a huge painting by paolo veronese from 1563, "the wedding at cana." the original painting now hangs in the louvre museum in paris, but it got there as a gift of napoleon, whose forces ripped it from its original home, a church in venice. factum's experts studied, scanned, slowly recreated it, and finally put it-- the copy, that is-- into its old home. >> many people started to question about whether the experience of seeing it in its correct setting, with the correct light, in dialogue with this building that it was painted for, is actually more authentic than the experience of seeing the original in the louvre. >> reporter: lowe had another major win in his recreation of king tut's tomb, in the valley of the kings, built next to the original site. in madrid, we got a tour of some key parts of the process, which begins far away from this building, with the scanning of the actual objects in the field. that team is led by architect carlos bayod, using a laser scanner developed at factum, known as the lucida. >> we are c