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Unearthing Egypt: Doctor Zahi’s Grand Lecture Tour and Virtual Tours of Excavations
In case you haven’t heard of it yet, Doctor Zahi Hawass, a celebrated archaeologist and former Minister of…
Virtual Tour the Tomb of King Tut: (Un)Complicating the Story of the Discovery of the Tomb
This post is a special feature by Egyptologist Tessa Litecky, in honor of a virtual tour of the…
Virtual Guided Tour of the Great Pyramid: Digitizing Khufu Interior with Harvard’s Giza Project
Under the partnership of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Egypt and the Giza Project at Harvard…
How to Make Accessible Virtual Tours for Your Museum or Heritage Site: Comparing 3D Scanning Technologies
This blog post originates from a conversation on a morning ride down to an archaeological site in a…
Digitizing Luxor Temple: a Virtual Field Trip for Students around the Globe
This enormous and deeply important ancient temple on the Nile has a new virtual life for students and…
Re-building Harvard Camp at the Giza Pyramids
Step into the shoes of archaeologists excavating at Giza in the early 1900s to track newly discovered tombs…
Digitizing the Tomb of Menna (TT 69) in the Theban Necropolis
This intensely beautiful New Kingdom tomb has a new digital life in the metaverse (if you’re a believer…
How Virtual Tours are a Tool for Accessibility for Your Spaces
After protecting their collections, the next imperative for curators and site managers is providing safe access to an…
An Overview of Virtual Tours for Heritage Sites and Museums
There has never been a more relevant time for publishing cultural heritage in digital 3D imaging online: since…
Comparing Search Interfaces on Digital Exhibitions
For digital exhibitions at museums and heritage sites, the search functionality in particular takes advantage of the electronic…