Egypt
- A Degree In Egyptology For Children
Egypt Centre Swansea blog (Carolyn Graves-Brown) This morning Wendy (assistant curator), Ros (museum assistant) and Ashleigh (volunteer manager) are off to the annual award ceremony for Children’s University and I am left holding the fort....
- Online: A Virtual Exploration Of The Lost Labyrinth
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis This paper reports on a case study that explores the possibility of reproducing a destroyed historic site from its remaining artefacts. Using VR (virtual reality) technologies, we construct a series of low-end, 3D...
- Egypt Centre Online Resources
http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/The Egypt Centre's collection can now be searched via an online search engine at the above address. The Egypt Centre is located in Swansea, in Wales (U.K.). There are over 4500 items in the collection, representing many...
- Saturday Trivia
The world has been sadly short of archaeological trivia recently, but here's are some bits of forthcoming "virtual" wizadry from the world of technology, that might interest and/or amuse: Virtual archaeology on the move http://tinyurl.com/jt4mn (istresults.cordis.europa.eu)...
- Sex And Gender In Ancient Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/cm7w4 "Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, cosmetic surgery, gay hairdressers, desperate housewives and a mysterious sex manual. A new TV offering aimed at overshadowing the BBC's sex and swords drama Rome? Well, no, actually -...
Egypt
Egypt Centre to have virtual tomb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4282516.stm
"A virtual reality pharaoh's tomb is being developed in Swansea so school children can journey to ancient Egypt. Pupils visiting the Egypt Centre at the city's university will test what they learn in a 3D interactive setting. Youngsters aged eight and upwards will be asked to solve a series of tasks as they explore the virtual tomb".
Swansea is in south Wales (UK). See the article for more about the 3D software development and user interface.
- A Degree In Egyptology For Children
Egypt Centre Swansea blog (Carolyn Graves-Brown) This morning Wendy (assistant curator), Ros (museum assistant) and Ashleigh (volunteer manager) are off to the annual award ceremony for Children’s University and I am left holding the fort....
- Online: A Virtual Exploration Of The Lost Labyrinth
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis This paper reports on a case study that explores the possibility of reproducing a destroyed historic site from its remaining artefacts. Using VR (virtual reality) technologies, we construct a series of low-end, 3D...
- Egypt Centre Online Resources
http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/The Egypt Centre's collection can now be searched via an online search engine at the above address. The Egypt Centre is located in Swansea, in Wales (U.K.). There are over 4500 items in the collection, representing many...
- Saturday Trivia
The world has been sadly short of archaeological trivia recently, but here's are some bits of forthcoming "virtual" wizadry from the world of technology, that might interest and/or amuse: Virtual archaeology on the move http://tinyurl.com/jt4mn (istresults.cordis.europa.eu)...
- Sex And Gender In Ancient Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/cm7w4 "Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, cosmetic surgery, gay hairdressers, desperate housewives and a mysterious sex manual. A new TV offering aimed at overshadowing the BBC's sex and swords drama Rome? Well, no, actually -...