Egypt
The Harvard Crimson
- 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...
- Virtual Giza
The Giza 3D website is at: http://giza3d.3ds.com/#discover Fast Co Design (Cliff Kuang) With photos. Last November, three American students studying in Egypt were arrested as they watched the protests leading up to parliamentary elections from...
- Giza Archives Project Wins 2010 Philip M. Hamer And Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award
Giza Archives blog (Peter der Manuelian) In recognition of outstanding efforts to promote its vast holdings of early 20th century archaeological expedition records, the Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is the 2010 recipient of...
- 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...
- 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...
Egypt
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 all your youth?” he asked, sitting in his office in the Semitic Museum.“I remember that being the first time I was actively interested in something—the scale of Egypt, the monuments, the beauty of the language, the art styles.”
Raised in the Boston area, Der Manuelian says he feels lucky to have grown up in a city with a museum whose ancient Egyptian collection is as extensive as the Museum of Fine Arts’s. When he matriculated at Harvard, he ended up concentrating in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, the same department in which he currently teaches. His thesis was on Amenhotep II, an athletic New Kingdom pharaoh he describes as “the world’s first super jock.”
This fall, Der Manuelian, who had been teaching at Tufts University, is offering a new General Education course, Societies of the World 38, “Pyramid Schemes: The Archaeological History of Egypt.” So far, 165 students have enrolled in the course. Der Manuelian said he expects to teach the course, along with several other more specialized classes, for the next few years.
- 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...
- Virtual Giza
The Giza 3D website is at: http://giza3d.3ds.com/#discover Fast Co Design (Cliff Kuang) With photos. Last November, three American students studying in Egypt were arrested as they watched the protests leading up to parliamentary elections from...
- Giza Archives Project Wins 2010 Philip M. Hamer And Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award
Giza Archives blog (Peter der Manuelian) In recognition of outstanding efforts to promote its vast holdings of early 20th century archaeological expedition records, the Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is the 2010 recipient of...
- 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...
- 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...