Digital Karnak - Temple Development, UCLA

The Digital Karnak Project aims to make the ancient Egyptian site of Karnak more accessible to students and instructors in the English-speaking world. The features of the website have been designed to provide college classrooms (and the interested public) with easily accessible, up-to-date, expert material relating to the temple precinct. As part of this goal, a 3-D Virtual Reality model of the temple was constructed, offering students a completely new way to view the temple: reign-by-reign, following the complex patterns of royal construction, modification and destruction that are now obscured by the latest building phases at the site. Footage of this model, as well as original videos and maps, are accompanied by thematic essays written and reviewed by Egyptologists to supply students and instructors with reliable information in a digital and visually dynamic platform. A simplified version of the Virtual Reality model of the temple is also made available in Google Earth, for a completely interactive experience.
http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Karnak/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• ucla
• humanities
• egyptian
• karnak
• temple
• virtual
• model
• college
• university

[Arckitekt]

Great work. Very interesting how the Egyptians grew the complex. What type of rendering/modelling software was used?

[juangarzatamez]

Es maravilloso, muchas gracias.

[SpartyWorld]

Amazing!!!

[jermanium]

Great effort.Thank you

[HakatRe]

Wait a minute... There is NO WAY that mine was the only comment for this video after 2,600+ views and nearly a year posted! That is ridiculous. Is a mere 15 minutes too long for the average modern person to invest for a historical timeline so well illustrated? Karnak is only the largest religious complex ever built by man.

[HakatRe]

BRILLIANT!!! Obviously, an immense effort on the part of the creators for this presentation. I can only imagine how much time was involved in making this. Very well done.