Apple -- Vijayanagara
Article from Apple's website about Archaeos at Vijayanagara. This article has also been highlighted by MacCentral Onlineand Architosh, an online resource site for Mac-based architects and CAD professionals.
Asian Age Bangalore
A short article on the Archaeos project in Vijayanagara.
GIS Development
An Asian GIS Portal site with a short article from the Hindustan Times.
Imajal.com
An interview with David Gimbel, "Learning from the Past", including sections on Archaeos and the project at Vijayanagara.
POB
A cover story written by David Gimbel for POB, an industry magazine for surveying.
Prosurv
Prosurv's website has several photos of fieldwork being conducted at Vijayanagara. Prosurv is the program Archaeos uses on Psion handhelds for collecting data.
Vectorworks
Archaeos is included under the case studies on the Nemetschek Vectorworks website. Vectorworks is the CAD program Archaeos uses in the field.
Vijayanagara
John Fritz and George Michell's website about Vijayanagara, India. Archaeos recently completed a joint project with the Vijayanagara Research Project at this 14th century site.
Apple -- Tell Arbid
Article from Apple's website about Archaeos at Tell Arbid.
Tell Arbid
University of Vienna's site about the 1999 expedition to Tell Arbid.
Sites
run by other institutions
Hierakonpolis
Hierakonpolis is an important site for understanding the foundations of ancient Egyptian society. It was an important settlement along the Nile since well before the construction of the pyramids. This site contains information about the expedition and a history of earlier expeditions. With Macromedia content.
Tomb of Senneferi at Luxor, Egypt
Ongoing excavation at the tomb of Senneferi on the West Bank at Luxor in Egypt. Information about the tomb, what's been found, and how archaeology is done.
Tomb of Harwa
Site reports, the background of the site, and a bibliography about the Mission of the Archaeological Museum of Milan's excavations at the Tomb of Harwa on the West Bank of Luxor, near the Temple of Hatshepsut. The mission is sponsored by the Cultural Association "Harwa 2001".
Virtual unwrapping of a mummy's head
The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine (IMDM) University Hospital Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, Germany have created computerized simulations through computer tomography. Sections on the site reconstruct a mummy's head and simulate the unwrapping of one through QTVR movies.
Tell Beydar
An overview and on-line reports of excavations at Tell Beydar, a bronze age site in northern Syria.
Çatalhöyük, Turkey
Site with newsletters, discussion groups, and research materials about Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
Ras Shamra (Ugarit)
An introduction to the site, with a history, texts, and bibliographic information.
Persepolis and Ancient Iran
Introduction with an extensive collection of detailed photographs. The photographs are from a catalog of images contained in a microfiche publication from 1976, Persepolis and Ancient Iran.
Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
Quicktime and MPEG movie clips of a 3D fly-through of the Palace of Ashurnasirpal III.
The Archaeology of Quanzhou
A bilingual site in English and Chinese containing information about the medieval port city of Quanzhou, a city in Fujian, which is located on the mainland Chinese side of the Taiwan Strait. Quanzhou was "a thriving international community" which "had connections to Southeast Asia, India, western Asia and the African coast as well as Korea and Japan." The archaeological remains there include religious buildings of the Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist faiths, as well as Christian buildings of both the eastern (Franciscan) and western (Nestorian) churches.
Origins of Angkor Archaeological Project
An archaeological project conducted by the University of Otago's Department of Anthropology and the Fine Arts. The projected mission of this project near the famous site of Ankor in Thailand is "to assess the seminal aspects of the social, cultural and technological development in the Mun River valley of Northeast Thailand" focusing upon the Bronze Age site of Ban Lum Khao, and two Iron Age sites, Non Muang Kao and Noen U-Loke. Among other things, this site includes a "virtual excavation" illustrating the different levels of an excavation and the associated field notes taken by archaeologists.
Digging for Vikings
According to the authors of this page, the Department of Archaeology and Numismatics at the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, this site presents a "stream of on-line updates" during the team's brief three week field season (late August and early September) archaeological field season.
The Perseus Project
A vast digital library of resources for the study of the classical world. One of the few truly superlative sites on the web. Includes Latin texts, an atlas, an encyclopedia, essays and other secondary sources, images, and various other research tools. A "must see" for anyone interested in the classical world.
The Corinth Computer Project
Website from Dr. David Gilman at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to the reconstruction of the landscape and city plan of ancient Corinth. Particularly interesting is the project's use of various state of the art methods of gathering and rendering archaeological data. These include: three-dimensional (CAD) renderings, global information system (GIS) mapping and modeling, aerial photographs and satellite images, interactive maps, a QTVR "fly-through" of Corinth, and a Quicktime movie of the Roman forum.
Vijayanagara
Website about Vijayanagara, India. Archaeos is negotiating to run a joint project at this 14th century site.
Harappa
Indus Valley archaeological sites. With slide shows, computer rendered mapping, and 3D content.
Caracol Archaeological Project
A site about the powerful ancient Mayan state of Caracol. Caracol was the largest archaeological site in Belize, Central America. By 650 AD, it occupied an area of approximately 10 square kilometers (an area larger than modern day Belize City). Includes some games for kids.
Chaco Canyon
Information on the important Anasazi cultural center that flourished from about 900 through 1130 AD in northwestern New Mexico, an area currently surrounded by Navajo reservations and near Zuni and Hopi reservations. This site, which consisted of approximately 30 ancient masonry buildings, included some structures that are thought to have served as astronomical observatories. It is now part of Chaco Culture National Historical Park administered by the National Park Service. The web site contains photographs, architectural plans, bibliographic sources, and information for visitors.
Mesa Verde
Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, the culture(s) represented at Mesa Verde spanned more than 700 years of history, from approximately A.D. 600 through 1300. The most famous remains at Mesa Verde are the sheltered villages, known as "cliff dwellings" that were constructed only during the final 75 to 100 years of occupation at Mesa Verde. Today, 24 Native American tribes in the southwest still claim an ancestral affiliation with the sites at Mesa Verde. The web site includes general information on the park, including information for visitors. The National Park Service which operates the site is in the process of developing educational resources and curricula for use by educators and fourth through seventh grade students.
A small site containing basic information about the prehistoric "moundbuilders" who occupied large areas of the alluvial banks of the lower Mississippi Valley and created ceremonial earthworks there before the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth century.
Archaeology in Sudan
Site intended to provide a brief overview of the rich cultures that included the empire of Kerma (c.2500-1500 BCE), the Kushite/Meroitic empires (c.800 BCE-350 BCE), the later medieval Nubian kingdoms and the Sultanates of Funj Sennar and Darfur which followed the medieval period.
The Mahas Survey Project (University of Khartoum)
Description of a project undertaking a regional study of the archaeology and long-term history of the Mahas region of Middle Nubia, in northern Sudan.
The Nubia Salvage Project
A brief description of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago's participation in the UNESCO international salvage excavation project in the reservoir area of the Aswan High Dam in Upper Egypt in 1960-64 and subsequent activities relating to that project.
The Institute for Ancient Equestrian Studies Samara Valley Project
Conducted in conjunction with the Institute for the History and Archaeology of the Volga (IHAV) in Russia, this project focuses on a series of sites in Eurasia. It studies the interaction between pastoral nomads and horses during the Late Bronze Age (c 2000-1700 BCE). Small, but interesting site.
Griffith Institute
The Griffith Institute at Oxford University. Includes newsletters, bibliographies, and research tools about the Ancient Near East and Egypt as well as a section for young people.
ABZU
A project and publication of the research archives at the University of Chicago managed by Chuck Jones of the Oriental Institute. The site serves as a guide to the resources for the study of the Ancient Near East available on the internet.
Center for the Study of Architecture
The Center for the Study of Architecture and the Archaeological Institute of America web based guide to archaeological projects, mostly in the Eastern Mediterranean. Lists excavations, surveys, salvage operations, conservation/rescue projects, catalogs, and other laboratory-based projects.
Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum
Egyptian, Classical, and ancient Middle Eastern art drawn from the collection at the Brooklyn Museum with images and text for objects from the collection.
Kelsey Museum Online
The Kelsey Museum at the University of Michigan has a collection of Greek, Roman, and Ancient Near Eastern objects. Objects from the Roman site of Karanis in Egypt forms the cornerstone of the collection.
Semitic Museum at Harvard University
The Semitic Museum at Harvard University website currently has sections on Giza, the Cesnola collection (a collection of objects from Ancient Cyprus), Nuzi and the Hurrians, excavations at Ashkelon in Israel, and the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at Harvard University.
Ancient Egypt collections at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Featuring works in the permanent collection and the "Pharaohs of the Sun" exhibit of works from the reign of Akhenaten.
Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
With an introduction to different collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including the Ancient Near Eastern collection and the Ancient Egyptian collection. For each collection an introduction and fifty objects from the collection are presented in roughly chronological order.
Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago
Ancient Near East collection. With sections highlighting the collection, New Egyptian Gallery, the Virtual Museum (QTVR panoramas of the museum), and the museum store.
Egypt: Gift of the Nile, exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum
Exhibit (from 15 October 1998 to 10 January 1999) focusing on ten "eternal truths" of ancient Egyptian culture and answers to questions that could arise from viewing the exhibit. The discover Egypt section has ideas for families and teachers to use to explore the concepts and ideas developed by the ancient Egyptians. The site, however, does not have extensive coverage of the exhibit.
Apple
Article from Apple's website about Archaeos at Tell Arbid.
Virtual unwrapping of a mummy's head
The Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science in Medicine (IMDM) University Hospital Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, Germany have created computerized simulationsthrough computer tomography. Sections on the site reconstruct a mummy's head and simulate unwrapping of one through QTVR movies.
A site highlighting the uses of GIS and remote sensing in archaeology to create models of ancient and modern landscapes. In the words of the site's authors "This research is designed to investigate the applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), airborne and satellite remote sensing, GPS, computer visualizations, and other advanced non-destructive technologies for regional archaeological investigations." The project's researchers collected "SPOT, Landsat, RADARSAT, ARIES airborne scanner, and traditional aerial photography and field survey data" on the Arroux River Valley region of Burgundy (France) and use it here to describe changes in landscape and settlement from the Celtic Iron Age (over 2000 years ago) to the present.
Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities
A list of sites that are seeking volunteers for archaeological projects (hosted by the Costen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA).
Collapse: Why do civilizations fall?
A small site by Annenberg/CPB Exhibits providing some information on the collapse of ancient societies and civilizations.
A Glossary of Archaeological Terms
What is a "calcareous concretion", what does "parallel flaking" mean, when was the "pleistocene period"? These and many other questions are answered here. A useful site hosted at Southern Methodist University.
Amiens Cathedral Project
A project run by Prof. Stephen Murray of Columbia University. This site contains a "virtual tour" of one of Europe's greatest Medieval cathedrals featuring computer graphics, photographs, quicktime movies, and sound files. The CAD rendered models are particularly impressive.
Apple QuickTime Plug-In for
QTVR panoramas and QuickTime movies.
