[Future Snake Eater]

Would you like to see the US Constitution (original document) or a modern printout laying in its place?

Is your assertion that it's better to leave Notre Dame a burned out husk since we don't have the original construction methods/techniques/materials to work with?

[Windflier]

Is your assertion that it's better to leave Notre Dame a burned out husk since we don't have the original construction methods/techniques/materials to work with?

There are a lot of uninformed assertions being bandied about right now. Fact is, we DO have the necessary methods, materials, and skills to restore Notre Dame to its original specs.

I highly doubt that it will be rebuilt with any flammable materials. I'm thinking structural steel or composite materials for the roof members and exterior sheathing. Damaged stone and plaster elements will be replaced with the same, fabricated and installed by skilled craftsmen.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Until they apprehend and remove the perps! Might be the best plan.

[a fool in paradise]

Telling me how incredible the 3-D scans are means a reasonable facsimile can be constructed but it will be a replica. Not 800 years old.

Should we restore the nose of the Sphinx?
Resurface the exteriors of the pyramids?

I agree repair Notre Dame but it will still be a reconstruction of an olde cathedral.

There was controversy when The Last Supper was ‘restored’.