Virtual explorers comb Egypt's ruins

Boston Globe ^ | Monday, June 18, 2007 | Pamela Ferdinand

[SunkenCiv]

From the comfort of his study in Norwich, England, Colin Newton, a retired television repairman, explores rare Giza maps and expedition diaries in an effort to catalog all Old Kingdom tombs. Meanwhile, Laurel Flentye, an Egyptologist who specializes in art and archaeology, downloads excavation photos and roams inside subterranean chambers, zooming in on relief decorations in tombs around the Sphinx and Great Pyramid from her Cairo home... The Giza Archives Project, established by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts in January 2005, aims to become the world's central online repository for all archaeological activity at the necropolis, beginning with the major 20th-century excavations that were jointly funded by the museum and Harvard University... The MFA has been a leader in Egyptology ever since its late archaeologist George A. Reisner supervised the longest single-running excavation at Giza between 1902 and 1947. Reisner, also on the faculty of Harvard, helped uncover thousands of items, from utilitarian objects to artistic masterpieces, and amassed the largest documentary archive of any expedition at the site. As a result, the MFA is second only to Cairo in its collection of Old Kingdom artifacts.

[SunkenCiv]

There's also a gallery on the Globe website.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

more virtual Egypt:

Theban Mapping Project (Valley of the Kings etc)
Theban Mapping Project | 1980s to present | Kent Weeks et al
Posted on 01/13/2005 11:03:55 PM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1320504/posts

[Hegemony Cricket]

[SunkenCiv]

:’) I tried two search terms in the MFA site — “djedjefre” and “reserve heads”, and it produced bupkis. :’) Of course, the collection may not have any of either...

[Cecily]

You can look at the pyramids and the Giza plain via Google Earth too.

[bannie]

Weren’t they combing the area for the Schwartz?

[Hegemony Cricket]

Well, actually they were looking for Princess Vespa of Druidia, but they finally found Yogurt... :-)

[bannie]

Oh yea, oh yea!

Silly me! It’s been too long ago.

[Hegemony Cricket]

No problemo - I’ve got a major advantage - I caught a re-run of it over the weekend - still very funny after all these years! :-)

[wolficatZ]

So, is there anything to be found under The Sphynx, or is this just an overhyped myth?

[SunkenCiv]

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