The prototype illustrates the use 3D Virtual Worlds and Artificial Intelligence in the domain of Cultural Heritage.The aim of the project is to recreate the ancient city of Uruk from the period around 3000 B.C. in the Virtual World of Second Life letting history students experience how it looked like and how its citizens behaved in the past. The prototype currently features 4 autonomous agents re-enacting the daily life cycle of 2 fisherman families. The recreation of the city and agent behaviors are being modeled under supervision of subject matter experts and based on the results of archaeological excavations and available historical data.
Sir William's take on what archaeology has to tell us about modern civilization.
Pt.3 of Tim Truss's comedy classic
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ARCHAEOLOGY: Broken pottery, glass, tobacco pipes and other items are frequent finds in towns and villages around England. By studying the shapes and patterns we can build up a picture of general household items used in previous Centuries as well as sometimes tracing the origin of manufacture. This information can be useful to archaeologists. This Video presentation covers a small group of items found near the City of Exeter in Devon, England.
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A detailed 3D Google Earth model of the ancient Inca city of Machu Picchu has been created using data from a laser scan of the site conducted by the University of Arkansas (see below). The model contains every building, every structure and every terrace in the entire city and is accurate to within 10cm (4
Excavations on the old city fortress of Visoki in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The dig has revealed rich in artefacts and information on the fortress and its people.
On February 10th, archaeologist digging in a pyramid in Mexico City's Tlatelolco square said they had found a grave that held the remains of 49 adult Indians. These Aztecs may have fought Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec empire.
Recreation of the ancient Capital of Iran, Parsa. Persepolis called by the greeks and destroyed by Alexander the Macedonian. It was called the richest City under the Sun. In todays Iran it known as Takhte Jamshid.
This video, narrated by Project Manager Kim Dylla, showcases the new procedural content added to the Rome Reborn model in version 2.0 by the City Engine software, developed by Procedural, Inc. It features a real-time screen capture of the interface, which renders the model interactively over the internet using Mental Images' Reality Server software.
An early webcam (the first at an archaeological excavation?) was installed at an excavation on an important Romano-British burial site (ca 60AD) west of Colchester. The area is now a gravel pit. It is possible the site was visited by the Emperor Claudius following the Roman invasion of AD43.
This is a sequence of archived image sets from the webcam, together with diary entries from when they could be downloaded from an active website. For more information, see 'City of Victory', Philip Crummy, Colchester Archaeological Trust, 1997. ISBN 1 89771905 1.
The webcam and associated software were set-up by staff of the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (now Computing and Electronic Systems) at the University of Essex.
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