Egypt
Voices of the Past
- News For 16th February 2013
Copied from my Twitter account @egyptologynews, in no particular order Today is the 90th anniversary of the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb by Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter. The Telegraph http://bit.ly/12QKidm A New Kingdom jigsaw puzzle from Malqata:...
- Digital Karnak
Digital Karnak The new Digital Karnak website is up and running at the above address. Here's the text from the introductory page: The colossal site of Karnak is one of the largest temple complexes in the world, with an incredibly rich architectural,...
- 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...
- Why Do Virtual Heritage?
Archaeology Magazine (Donald H. Sanders) Those of us in the virtual heritage business who create digital surrogates of the ancient world see many benefits of visualizing the past interactively and in 3D. We understand that the past did not happen in 2D...
- New Book: Archaeology And The Media
Left Coast Press Thanks very much to co-author Marcus Brittain for his email to the Arch-Theory group ([email protected]) announcing the publication of a new book. I suspect that the examples will all be focused on Europe, but I thought that...
Egypt
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 of approach in this interview.
As a Registered Professional Archaeologist in North America a Member of the Institute for Archaeologists in the U.K., Shawn Graham knows the finer points of working in the field. But these days, he’s taking the world of archaeology — and ancient civilizations — into the digital realm with simulations called Agent-Based Models (ABMs). Shawn’s blog “Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and Research,” explores how we can learn more about how digital tools can be used to better understand archaeological phenomena and, more importantly, the people behind them.
- News For 16th February 2013
Copied from my Twitter account @egyptologynews, in no particular order Today is the 90th anniversary of the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb by Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter. The Telegraph http://bit.ly/12QKidm A New Kingdom jigsaw puzzle from Malqata:...
- Digital Karnak
Digital Karnak The new Digital Karnak website is up and running at the above address. Here's the text from the introductory page: The colossal site of Karnak is one of the largest temple complexes in the world, with an incredibly rich architectural,...
- 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...
- Why Do Virtual Heritage?
Archaeology Magazine (Donald H. Sanders) Those of us in the virtual heritage business who create digital surrogates of the ancient world see many benefits of visualizing the past interactively and in 3D. We understand that the past did not happen in 2D...
- New Book: Archaeology And The Media
Left Coast Press Thanks very much to co-author Marcus Brittain for his email to the Arch-Theory group ([email protected]) announcing the publication of a new book. I suspect that the examples will all be focused on Europe, but I thought that...