However, it is possible to reconstruct part of what happened.
From a CT-scan of a hyena skull, it is possible to reconstruct the three-dimension structure of the brain it held.
With this kind of data, it is possible to reconstruct a family tree of who is closest to whom and how they relate to one another.
He longed to hear a "Porgy and Bess" true to Gershwin's intentions, to the extent that it is possible to reconstruct them.
From a comparative study of both groups, it is possible to reconstruct, in general features, the early forms of Iranian religion for which there is no direct documentation.
"Once we appreciate," Tooze writes, "the scale of the international escalation that Hitler had set in motion in 1938, it is possible to reconstruct an intelligible and consistent strategic logic behind Hitler's actions".
Between Obama, Clinton and Rice, they have to see to what extent it is possible to reconstruct the multilateral consensus that to some extent held sway during the Bush senior years.
"In every century, philosophers and artists have supplied definitions of beauty, and thanks to their works it is possible to reconstruct a history of aesthetic ideas over time," the author writes in his introduction.
It is possible to reconstruct a common pattern for these initiations of individuals, although an Orphic "church" never existed, and the doctrines of the many small communities of individualists varied on a broad scale.
It is possible to reconstruct where all the pieces of all the continents were, going back billions of years.
It is possible to reconstruct the frequency response vector r f of r(t) from compressed samples y.
