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Hadrian's Wall snakes its way through 84 miles of barren British countryside, the frostbitten tip of the Roman empire. Yet you needn't leave your PC to get a feel for this weekend's illuminations event, which promises to be a spectacular celebration of Roman prowess.

Nicole, Sam and myself will be heading up to the wall to watch the illuminations for an Ancient World in London video about the bits of Britain even Rome dared not tinker with. We'll be visiting some of the wall's best-known sites, and speaking to experts about its glorious past.

Heritage Key challenges you to help recreate the collections of the British Museum and Ashmolean Museum... and win Heritage Key points.

This is a month-long competition starting on Monday February 15th, 2010, and running till March 14, 2010. If you love visiting ancient sites and museums and care about heritage and world culture and at the same time love taking photos then this is definitely for you to enjoy and be part of.

The British Museum holds a collection of seven million objects representing the rich history of human culture. It's range and diversity mirrors that of the city of London itself.

When I was asked to select ten of my favourite images from the Flickr photostream of Heritage Key photographer Sandro Vannini, I wasn't sure how I would be able to choose just ten from a collection of images that are each so breathtaking. 

However, I discovered that his photostream at present only contains 88 images so my task was a little less daunting.  However, they are all such exceptional images I would not even begin to know how to rank them in any particular order so please don't assume I found image number one more pleasing than number 10! Here are my joint top 10 favourite images by Vannini.

King Tut Virtual Photo Contest attracted almost 200 wonderful photos of Kig Tut Virtual. Taking good, quality, high-resolution photographs anywhere in the metaverse takes quite a bit of time, effort and creative genius, so now we have chosen the winners which receive 100$ for the most fabulous high resolution shots taken in King Tut Virtual.

Loki Popinjay, a well known metaverse photographer had so many breath taking photos that we had seriously hard time to figure out which one to be the winner. The artefacts in King Tut Virtual are very real life like and still Loki has captured the beauty of the virtual reality in the most amazing ways. The quality of his photography is in very high level.

This is the second pick from his entries . He captured the landscape by the Nile area where you can see the Amarna house in the background. The reflection of the boat on the Nile is so beautiful and the whole feeling of the landscape is very dreamy.

When I was asked to compile a list my ten favourite photographs in the Heritage Key Flickr Pool, I thought to myself "Easy! This will be a doddle!" Wow.. How wrong I was. There are some truly amazing, stunning, incredible images in the Flickr pool which you should definately have a look through - I'm likely to run out of adjectives in this blogpost!

Following on from Herb Schmitz's visit to the stunning Roman ruins of Leptis Magna (you can watch Heritage Key's video interview with Herb on his visit to Libya here), one of the most prominent members of Heritage Key's Flickr group has also recently visited the North African site and shot some videos of the various ruins.

Both photos taken by Prad Prathivi at Heritage Key King Tut Virtual

A team of software developers in the United States has come up with an algorithm that can construct virtual 3D models of cities, monuments and the interiors of buildings by using the photos available on public photo-sharing Web sites such as Flickr. The first city they chose to model was Rome - as mentioned here.

Less than 24 hours is all your need to build Rome these days: a team of developers from the University of Washington and Cornell University has come up with an algorithm that can aggregate thousands of tourist photos from social network photo-sharing websites and create a three-dimensional virtual city model from them.

Highly popular tourist sites such as Rome work well –  currently there are more than two million photos of Rome on Flickr. The Washington University team has also used its technology to recreate the cities of Venice and Dubrovnik.