Egypt
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- Visualising Ancient Egyptian Artefact Surface Transformations
Kathryn Piquette's Blog These past several days have been largely occupied with preparing and delivering a conference paper at ‘The Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology’ (CAA) 2012 at the University of Southampton....
- 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...
- Google Funding For Discovery Of Ancient Texts Online
AlphaGalileo 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...
- Shining A Light On The Past
The Economist Not specific to Egyptology but may well be of use here as elsewhere. Having spent part of an afternoon under a black-out sheet with a carved rock, a fellow archaeologist and a high powered torch each to try and work out the patterns carved...
- 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)...
Egypt
Technology to Throw New Light On Ancient Artifacts
Science Daily
New technology which makes it possible to study the finer details of some of the world's greatest historical artifacts has been developed by computer scientists and archaeologists at the University of Southampton in conjunction with academics at the University of Oxford.
Dr Kirk Martinez at the University of Southampton's ECS -- Electronics and Computer Science and the team have developed two Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) systems to capture images of documentary texts and archaeological material. The systems takes 76 pictures of artifacts with the light in different positions, then creates a new type or RTI image. The viewer can then move the virtual light anywhere and focus on the detail.
- Visualising Ancient Egyptian Artefact Surface Transformations
Kathryn Piquette's Blog These past several days have been largely occupied with preparing and delivering a conference paper at ‘The Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology’ (CAA) 2012 at the University of Southampton....
- 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...
- Google Funding For Discovery Of Ancient Texts Online
AlphaGalileo 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...
- Shining A Light On The Past
The Economist Not specific to Egyptology but may well be of use here as elsewhere. Having spent part of an afternoon under a black-out sheet with a carved rock, a fellow archaeologist and a high powered torch each to try and work out the patterns carved...
- 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)...