| by Raymon Kondos CAIRO (youregypt.com)
- Tourists can now see the Giza
Pyramids as they were constructed several thousand years ago,
walk into Tutankhamun's
intact tomb
as it was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter or see the Sphinx
as it looked like 2000 years ago and have a look at the famous lighthouse
of Alexandria
before its destruction 14 centuries ago.
Image capture of Eternal Egypt
shows the Sphinx as once was |
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The Egyptian government has launched on last Feb 24th an interactive
website about Egypt with a virtual reconstruction of several monuments
enabling viewers to see them as they once were.
The U.S. $2.5 million project is the fruit of cooperation between
each of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, IBM and Cultnat. (The
Egyptian Center for the Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage)
The website, called Eternal Egypt, shows an amazing collection
of 360 degree images, thousands of high-resolution images and panoramic
views of current day Egypt broadcast from 5 locations throughout
the country.
Eternal Egypt features a Connections function which permits visitors
to explore the complex relationships between objects, places and
personalities of Egypt’s past.
The website -which is available in English, French and Arabic- exploited
IBM’s most innovative technologies to create an interactive
multimedia experience of Egyptian cultural artifacts, places and
history.
“The outcome represents the richest repository of information
and media about Egyptian cultural history available on the web today,”
said Ahmed Nazif Egyptian minister of Communications and Information
Technology.
The project funded by IBM is the company’s third similar venture
after Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg (Russia) and Michaelanglo’s
Florence Pieta statue in Italy.
Eternal Egypt also offers guiding information, rich text and animations
to PDAs and cellular phones which enable visitors to take thematic
tours of the Egyptian museum or to explore it by room, artifact
or picture.
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Eternal Egypt is available at: www.eternalegypt.org
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