Rekrei collects images from lost sites, artifacts, or artwork, hoping to construct 3D models quite similar, if not identical, to original objects.
The jihadist group viewing these statues, reliefs, and other artifacts as idolatry, ISIL justified the destruction of museum collections, as well as having the same motivation, when destroying sites of historical and cultural significance across the area.
[3] Following ISIL's destruction of sites and artifacts in and around Mosul, UNESCO describes the relevance and the influence of these ancient cities as important to the "greatness of civilization, further referring to their demolition as a "war crime".
Despite lacking any record of unexplored sites, Chance Coughenour and Matthew Vincent, both part of the Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage (ITN-DCH), realized that applying the use of photogrammetry to recreate destroyed works of art, statues, and sites may help to create a digital record or archive to curate these destroyed works, while simultaneously allowing for future study, appreciation, and analysis.
Rekrei helps as an organization to advocate for the preservation of cultural heritage that may be destroyed in the future, hoping to establish archives of digital data and reconstructions to prevent losses, such as those in Mosul.