Egypt


Past Horizons

With photos.

An exciting new project exploring how people in the past viewed the geography of the ancient world, has been backed by $50,000 grant from Google, Inc. via its Digital Humanities Awards Program.

Google Ancient Places (GAP) is developing a Web application which allows users to choose a classical text or book (from between 500BC – 500AD) and then search for references to ancient places within it, presenting the results in a user-friendly interface.

GAP uses specialist software to identify where and how often places are mentioned within a text, displaying references to the locations and plotting results on a map using an independent digital gazetteer (Pleiades).




- Book Review: La Biblioteca Di Alessandria
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Alexandra Trachsel) Monica Berti, Virgilio Costa, La Biblioteca di Alessandria: storia di un paradiso perduto. Ricerche di filologia, letteratura e storia 10. Roma: Edizioni Tored, 2010. The study on the Library...

- Off Topic - Photobooks
With a massive collection of digital photographs taken from our recent visit to Egypt, I wanted to put together a photo book for my father as a souvenir. I thought that it would be a simple matter of finding a company with some good software that would...

- Sisyphos Archaeological And Egyptological Search Engine
intute Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link. I hadn't come across the site before he pointed it out. Sisyphos Description Sisyphos is an Internet search engine providing access only to archaeological and Egyptological websites. Similarly to Intute,...

- Authormapper - Egypt
AuthorMapper, Egypt Neat online application which searches the Springer website for articles which are available for download, sorted by geographical area. The above link produces results for a search on Egypt. Here's the site's introduction:...

- Digital Karnak
Digital Karnak The new Digital Karnak website is up and running at the above address. Here's the text from the introductory page: The colossal site of Karnak is one of the largest temple complexes in the world, with an incredibly rich architectural,...



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