Thursday, May 22, 2008

Virtual Egypt - Archaeorama and the Amduat

Electric Archaeology (blog by Shawn Graham)

Thre have been a couple of articles reacently about attempts to creat virtual experiences of ancient Egypt. Shawn Graham reports on a work in progress:

I confess, I am not very aware of what’s going on in Egyptology - but visitors to Rossella Lorenzi’s new space in Second Life certainly will become so!

Rossella is a reporter for the Discovery Channel, and maintains a blog about the latest happenings in the world of archaeology. Recently, she’s been crafting a ‘Chamber of Secrets’ that recreates the passage from the world of the living to the world of the dead - or at least, how that was conceived in the ‘Amduat - the Book of the Secret Chamber’ and ‘the Book of Gates’. These funerary texts were thought to contain, according to Rossella, the secret to eternal life.

See the above page for more information and a link to a video by rossella Lorenzi.

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