So it took me a while to start playing Assassin’s Creed: Origins, and the truth is, I haven’t finished it. I who am scared of dying in videogames ever since Super Mario Bros on the original NES, has been roaming Ptolemaic Egypt for over 80 hours now, sneaking up on countless Romans in order to…
Category: 3D
A visit to Cambridge
Last week the Do Not Touch? 3D in Museums conference took place organised by The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. In order to give a very short talk (5 minutes!) about digitising the tomb chapel of Hetepherakhty, I paid a visit to this lovely town. Thanks to the awesome Rennan Lemos I was a guest at…
Digital Egyptology News
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Following up on last time’s rant, I here present the latest in Digital Egyptology! Search museum collections Perhaps you have heard by now of the awesome Cleo project, which uses AI to search within four big museum collections: the National Museum of Antiquities, the…
The digital past: network analysis, 3D and photogrammetry
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Recently I’ve been getting a lot of inspiration for new digital projects by attending some very insightful workshops. In March, the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities showed us how to use Visone to study power relations between 15th century Florentine families. I am very interested…
Digital Egyptology news
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Exciting things are happening in the field of Digital Egyptology! A selection of projects: Tomb of Nefertari Experius VR have 3D scanned the tomb of Nefertari, allowing you to virtually walk around in it using a Vive headset. The VR experience can be downloaded…
Archaeogaming and Egyptology
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ Good news: researching video games in the context of archaeology is a thing now! It’s called ‘archaeogaming’ and covers everything from the digging up of actual video games (think of the Atari video game burial) to the digitally ‘excavating’ of code inside an old…
Egypt in 3D adventure games
Digital Egyptology news can now be followed at my website https://digitalegyptology.org/ My love for 3D reconstructions of ancient sites is founded on those turn of the millenium computer games that were described as ‘edutainment’. As a true nerd, I revelled in 3D point-and-click adventures that brought the player back to ancient places such as Egypt,…
A note on the King Tut documentary
Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered aired last Sunday on BBC and has already sparked controversy. In the documentary, Tut is shown bare-boned, CT-scanned and computer modeled to an unflattering degree. Previous theories concerning his death (a blow to the head, a fall from a riding chariot) are discarded and instead, the king is presented as a…