Recreation of history using augmented reality

History plays eminent role in culture representation of any place as heritage sites and monuments reflects tradition, art and culture of previous golden era. Since last few years, historical places get affected day by day due to pollutions, lack of maintenance and excessive tourism. It is necessary to preserve and interpret those valuable flashes of past time by usage of technologies. Museum is there that preserve history but it does not provide insight view in interactive manner and also it only reflects past of specific area. So there is a need to develop such platform that provide in depth visualization of that eminent past evolution. This can be achieved through rapid advance technologies in recent years such as virtual reality, augmented reality (AR), mobile computing that enable transmission of historic architecture into multi dimension modelling in real environment. In recent year, various vital research and techniques have been introduced that allows virtual reconstruction of heritage sites that enhance lookout of these sites through handheld devices. This paper describes about usage of AR in historical recreation as well as it elaborates previous work that has been done in this area and gives knowledge about technologies that allows creating application for AR oriented historical site.