Egypt
Cornell University Library's arXiv
Author: Amelia Sparavigna
(Submitted on 30 Mar 2009)
Available for download from the above page in PDF format
- Egypt Antiquities Restoration Under Way
National Geographic Video showing some of the damage at the museum, restoration work in progress, and Hawass offering reassurance about the safety of museums and monuments. There is an unedited transcript to accompany the video on the above page. More...
- Sixth Season Of The Epigraphic Survey
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) "Preserving Egypt's ancient records for present and future generations is what we strive to do," says Ray Johnson, director of Chicago House, the iconic home of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute archaeological...
- Simulating Ancient Social Networks
Voices of the Past Wandering slightly off topic, I've posted this because I'm interested in the use of digital media for improving the presentation of archaeology. There's a lot of easily digestible information about the value of this sort...
- X-rays Power Discoveries At Chicago's Field Museum
EurekAlert Carestream Health has donated a computed radiography (CR) system that enables The Field Museum—for the first time—to capture, archive and share digital x-ray images from more than one million priceless specimens and artifacts in its Anthropology...
- Reconstructed Mummy At Segedunum Roman Fort
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART41907.html"Visitors to the Segedunum Roman Fort in Wallsend will come face to face with an ancient Egyptian mummy this week, as a 3-dimensional digital image of her head is put on display at the Museum for...
Egypt
Digital Restoration of Ancient Papyri
Cornell University Library's arXiv
Author: Amelia Sparavigna
(Submitted on 30 Mar 2009)
Available for download from the above page in PDF format
Abstract: Image processing can be used for digital restoration of ancient papyri, that is, for a restoration performed on their digital images. The digital manipulation allows reducing the background signals and enhancing the readability of texts. In the case of very old and damaged documents, this is fundamental for identification of the patterns of letters. Some examples of restoration, obtained with an image processing which uses edges detection and Fourier filtering, are shown. One of them concerns 7Q5 fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- Egypt Antiquities Restoration Under Way
National Geographic Video showing some of the damage at the museum, restoration work in progress, and Hawass offering reassurance about the safety of museums and monuments. There is an unedited transcript to accompany the video on the above page. More...
- Sixth Season Of The Epigraphic Survey
Al Ahram Weekly (Jill Kamil) "Preserving Egypt's ancient records for present and future generations is what we strive to do," says Ray Johnson, director of Chicago House, the iconic home of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute archaeological...
- Simulating Ancient Social Networks
Voices of the Past Wandering slightly off topic, I've posted this because I'm interested in the use of digital media for improving the presentation of archaeology. There's a lot of easily digestible information about the value of this sort...
- X-rays Power Discoveries At Chicago's Field Museum
EurekAlert Carestream Health has donated a computed radiography (CR) system that enables The Field Museum—for the first time—to capture, archive and share digital x-ray images from more than one million priceless specimens and artifacts in its Anthropology...
- Reconstructed Mummy At Segedunum Roman Fort
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART41907.html"Visitors to the Segedunum Roman Fort in Wallsend will come face to face with an ancient Egyptian mummy this week, as a 3-dimensional digital image of her head is put on display at the Museum for...