- Part 63

Virtual World Photography: Tips & Tricks

In continuing my tutorial series, I’d like to take today to point out some useful tips and tricks for taking photographs on the Heritage Key and Rezzable grids! These are sure to help you in your quest to capture the perfect moment while visiting the ancient heritage sites within the…

Roman Graffiti: From Pompeii with Love

When someone tweeted “Follow penis symbols to find ancient brothel!” in reply to the news of Pompeii being the next – after Stonehenge and parts of the Wall of China – world heritage site to be available for ‘armchair tourism’ on Google Earth, this reminded me of some of the…

Why I Don’t Believe the Bust of Nefertiti is Fake

Following all the doubt and controversy surrounding claims that the Bust of Nefertiti is a fake, I would like to present my case and say why I believe the bust, now housed in the Neues Museum in Berlin, is an original. Let’s go back and look at the evidence, starting…

Egypt to Host ‘Repatriation of Artefacts Abroad’ Conference

Egypt will host an international conference next March for countries seeking the return of ancient indigenous treasures being kept in foreign museums, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the SCA and deputy-Culture Minister, said the conference – with Greece, Italy, China and Mexico attending –…

King Tut’s Treasures Expensive for Australian Museum

The blockbuster exhibition ‘King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs’ will not tour Australia because museums cannot afford it – not surprisingly if you look at the price tag. Egypt wants to prolong the world’s most successful tour of artefacts from the tomb of the boy-king but offers…

Terracotta Army sets up camp in Chile

Only weeks after a devision of Terracotta Warriors went on show National Geographic Museum in Washington DC– check out Graecyn’s splendid photographs here – another unit of the First Emperor’s Army “marched thousands of kilometers to Chile”. Last Friday Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet inaugurated the exhibition ‘The Ancient China and…

Astonishing News From Bulgaria – Women Fired Up Copper Age

Women invented metallurgy! This extraordinary revelation was made in a lecture last night at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (which has an unfortune acronym pronounced eyesore) by David Anthony, Professor of Anthropology at Hartwick College and Guest Curator of the exhibition currently on view…

The Virtual Ruins of Pompeii: Visit Them Now on Google’s Street View

First of all google sent a man on a bicycle around Stonehenge to capture the ancient site in virtual mode for Street View. Now it’s the archaeological site of Pompeii that’s online, allowing Internet users to take a 360-degree tour of the ancient Roman town destroyed by Vesuvius’s eruption in…

Face-Off: Rosetta Stone ‘V’ Behistun Inscription

The Rosetta Stone and the Behistun inscriptions are both key to the decipherment of ancient languages that co-existed in time. What’s also interesting is that they were both discovered in the middle of wars and by military personnel. There is something quite ironic about armies hell-bend on destruction and division…