Egypt
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Egypt
Google funding for discovery of ancient texts online
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A University of Southampton researcher is part of a team which has just secured funding from Google to make the classics and other ancient texts easy to discover and access online.
Leif Isaksen at the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) is working together with Dr Elton Barker at The Open University and Dr Eric Kansa of the University of California-Berkeley on the Google Ancient Places (GAP): Discovering historic geographical entities in the Google Books corpus project, which is one of 12 projects worldwide to receive funding as part of a new Digital Humanities Research Programme funded by Google.
The GAP researchers will enable scholars and enthusiasts worldwide to search the Google Books corpus to find books related to a geographic location and within a particular time period. The results can then be visualised on GoogleMaps or in GoogleEarth. The project will run until September next year.
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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...
- Piecing Together The Priceless 'cairo Genizah'
Science Daily A well-known collection of historical texts, the Cairo Genizah is one of the most valuable sources of primary documents for medieval historians and religious scholars. The 350,000 fragments found in the Genizah include not only religious...
- Virtual Tour Of The Great Museum Collections
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- Luxor Via Google Earth
http://touregypt.net/teblog/luxornews/?p=253For anyone planning a visit to Luxor, Jane Akshar has passed on a tip from some of her visitors at the above URL on her Luxor News blog. Satellite images from Google Earth delivered detailed images of the area,...
- 10 Things You Might Not Know - And Coconuts
http://tinyurl.com/byvv3 An article on the South Florida Sun Sentinel website entited Ten things you might not know about Tutankhamun and his times. One for the kids, maybe. Just one oddity - the article claims that the ancient Egyptians ate coconuts....