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Interview: Giza 3D - Peter Der Manuelian and Mehdi Tayoubi
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown)
Yesterday the Giza 3D Project was launched at a gala event at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA).
After the event I caught up virtually with Peter Der Manuelian, Giza Archives Director at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology at Harvard University, and Mehdi Tayoubi, Vice-President Digital & Experiential Strategy at Dassault Systémes to find out a bit more about the project.
Welcome Peter and thank you for taking the time out for this interview.
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Virtual Giza
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Peter Der Manuelian
The Harvard Crimson It was in his fourth grade history class that Peter Der Manuelian ’81—Harvard’s first Egyptology professor in over 60 years—first became enamored with the splendor of ancient Egypt. “You know how you battle against school...
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Giza Archives Project Wins 2010 Philip M. Hamer And Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award
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The 3d Giza Plateau & Virtual Archaeology
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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...
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