Virtual Qumran
The UCLA team creating and updating a virtual model of Qumran, the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves, have now released free photos and videos of their work, which are now available to view and download from their website. Their project started in 2005 and has been continuing ever since, adding new archaeological information as it comes along. It includes a number of photos, and short videos which you can watch in high definition on their site, or on youtube.
The main aim of the project is not to bolster any one theory on how Qumran, or the Dead Sea Scrolls, came to be, but rather to simply show what the site looks like, and provide a tool for teaching and research. It also allows them to test theories and research, and has already revealed some surprising results.
And the pictures look pretty cool as well!
Note check out Rome 3D and Karnak 3D on Heritage Key to see simulations created of those sites.
Click here to read an exclusive interview with Qumran excavator Yuval Peleg.
Click here to read a heritage expert profile of Dr. Robert Cargill
Qumran Reconstructed: An Aerial Overview
Qumran Reconstructed: The Locus 110 Iron Age Cistern
Images and video by UCLA Qumran Visualization Project.
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This is pretty impressive - virtual models are really bringing ancient sites to life and are adding a whole new dimension to archaeology and our feel for the past.
The renderings are pretty neat. It's unbelievable what technology can produce these days. Here's some interesting information relating to the study of Qumran (source: http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/called.com).
A basic problem facing scholars interested in Qumran is that the excavation by Father Roland de Vaux in 1952, five years after the first scrolls were found in caves nearby, has never been published. During a presentation of her reevaluation of the site's archaeology, Magness said that she could not reach solid conclusions because she has been unable to see de Vaux's original records, which remain in the École Biblique et Archéologique de Jerusalem. Magness later explained, "We can look at specific pieces of pottery, but the records have not been published and are not available to scholars. Somebody has got to publish them. They are no less important than the Dead Sea Scrolls."
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