Visualising Giza project
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Visualising Giza project


Visualising Giza (Paulalorla)

Many thanks to Paula for sending me a link to her website. She has taken images of Giza and displayed them so that the viewer is taken through the history both of people's visions of Giza and through the history of image reproduction (engraving, oils print, and photography). Some fascinating images!




- Penn Museum Launches Online Collections Database
Penn Museum (Gabrielle Niu) Just this week, the Penn Museum launched its Online Collections Database. This brand new resource currently encompasses over 314,000 object records and is illustrated with 46,000 images, stats that are expected to increase...

- The 3d Giza Plateau & Virtual Archaeology
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos and 2 minute preview video. The Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has for many years been the most extensive online resource on the archaeology of the Giza Plateau. Much of the archived...

- Exhibition: Framing The Archaeologist At The Petrie
Heritage Key (Charlotte Booth) I haven't seen this yet so I'm looking forward to a visit in the not too distant future: Amidst the charming Victorian cases of jewellery along the walls of the larger room in the Petrie Museum is the “Framing...

- Digitizing Giza
http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/tufts_journal_4_2007-giza.pdf"Step into the subterranean tomb of Meresankh III, a queen of Egypt, wife to her uncle, the pharaoh Khafre. Turn to the right and examine the hieroglyphs carved into the limestone...

- Giza Archives Project Update
http://www.gizapyramids.org/ After four years of preparation the Giza Archives Project website was launched earlier this year, and was updated this month. It is located at the above URL. The site will continue to be developed as a centralized online repository...



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