Egypt
Globe and Mail (Kate Taylor)
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- The 3d Giza Plateau & Virtual Archaeology
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos and 2 minute preview video. The Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has for many years been the most extensive online resource on the archaeology of the Giza Plateau. Much of the archived...
- Strategic Partnership To Develop 3d Archaeological Content
3DS Press Release. One of the world’s largest Egyptology databases, the Giza Archives Project, will be the first to benefit from the power of interactive, immersive and multi-platform 3D experiences for both the scientific community and the general...
- Tombs Of Eternity: The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt Exhibition At Canadian Museum Of Civilization
Stan ParchinThe Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec presents Tombs of Eternity: The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt from December 19, 2008 to August 16, 2009. The exhibition explains the Egyptians' concept of death not as the end of life,...
- Cemetery G2100 Virtual Exhibit
harvard.edu The exhibit recreates 10 mastaba-tombs from Cemetery G 2100 of Giza Necropolis in both Second Life and Google Earth virtual worlds. The majority of the archaeological diagrams and photographs used to create the models were made by the Harvard...
- Giza Archives Project - Finding The Pharaohs
http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/tufts_magazine_spr_2007.pdf Tufts Magazine, Spring 2007 (a publication of Tufts University), has featured the Giza Archives Project, in a paper entitled Finding the Pharaohs, by Helen Ragovin. This is an interesting...
Egypt
Breathing life into death on the Nile
Globe and Mail (Kate Taylor)
We know the Egyptians through their tombs. Their pyramids are legendary wonders. Their mummified bodies are popular icons. The ghoulish image is so persistent that Egyptologists have taken to reminding us in recent years that this ancient civilization was actually a lively society, not a death cult. With Tombs of Eternity: The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que., the pendulum is allowed to swing gently back in its original direction. The show, circulated by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts while that institution undergoes a renovation, successfully explains the Egyptian notion of the afterlife, while dramatically recreating the structure of a tomb.
First, however, we start confusingly with some introductory throat clearing that detracts from the logic and drama of the show's geography: a video about the religious importance of the Nile – why begin an exhibition of priceless ancient artifacts with a video? – and some information about Egyptian political history. But then we are introduced to the figure of George A. Reisner, the Harvard University archeologist who led the American team at the international excavations at Giza, site of the great pyramids. From 1905 to his death in 1942, Reisner dedicated his life to the Egyptian dig, where he helped introduce scientific methods of documentation to a profession that had once been little better than a form of grave robbing.
See the above page for more.
- The 3d Giza Plateau & Virtual Archaeology
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos and 2 minute preview video. The Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has for many years been the most extensive online resource on the archaeology of the Giza Plateau. Much of the archived...
- Strategic Partnership To Develop 3d Archaeological Content
3DS Press Release. One of the world’s largest Egyptology databases, the Giza Archives Project, will be the first to benefit from the power of interactive, immersive and multi-platform 3D experiences for both the scientific community and the general...
- Tombs Of Eternity: The Afterlife In Ancient Egypt Exhibition At Canadian Museum Of Civilization
Stan ParchinThe Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec presents Tombs of Eternity: The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt from December 19, 2008 to August 16, 2009. The exhibition explains the Egyptians' concept of death not as the end of life,...
- Cemetery G2100 Virtual Exhibit
harvard.edu The exhibit recreates 10 mastaba-tombs from Cemetery G 2100 of Giza Necropolis in both Second Life and Google Earth virtual worlds. The majority of the archaeological diagrams and photographs used to create the models were made by the Harvard...
- Giza Archives Project - Finding The Pharaohs
http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/tufts_magazine_spr_2007.pdf Tufts Magazine, Spring 2007 (a publication of Tufts University), has featured the Giza Archives Project, in a paper entitled Finding the Pharaohs, by Helen Ragovin. This is an interesting...