Archaeology on the Internet

Where to begin?

The ‘hosepipe effect’

Ask Jeeves (aj.com)

Tom Holloway:

The problem is really that there is TOO much

Tom Holloway:

The problem is really that there is TOO much

Tom Holloway - November 1999

A world-wide ‘digital’ library of all known Greek and Roman texts.

• Improved access to the 30,000+ pictures freely available• Greek Word Collocation Tool allows users to study Greek word co-occurrence patterns. • A new tool to search for Greek and Latin words in context. • New Synonym Tool suggests synonyms for Greek and Latin words.

Akkubita

Augustaion

Chora Monastery

Forum of Constantine

Hippodrome

The Theban Mapping Project

A joint project of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities and

American Universities

The Theban Mapping Project

First ‘probed’ by James Burton in 1825, but found “nothing of value”

Uncovered again by Howard Carter in 1902, who thought it “small, of no importance”

Extent of the tomb discovered by TMP during rescue dig (due to planned road widening)

Rameses the GreatTutankhamun

Up-to-the-minute news and discussions between academics and experts concerning the people and events of Egypt’s XVIII Dynasty.The AMARNA on-line conference

Reconstruction -- a different perspective

Using techniques borrowed from Forensic Scientists, medical

technicians, and artists, to reconstruct models of long-dead humans.

A mummified head was found in the collection of Florence’s Archaeological collection. It was ‘scanned’ to get an accurate record of the underlying skull.

The final result - a warrior, probably of Libyan origin who died of a major head wound at the end of the 4th century BC.

He was between 35 and 40 when he died, and was probably an officer in the service of the Pharaohs.

Legio II Augusta

Michael Kasner of Portland. Centurion and Armourer.

(Oregon)