On September 24, 2007, it was announced that a team of Egyptian archaeologists led by Zahi Hawass, discovered eight baskets of 3,000 year old doum fruit in the treasury of Tutankhamun's tomb. Doum comes from a type of palm tree native to the Nile Valley. The doum fruit are traditionally offered at funerals. Fifty clay pots bearing Tutankhamun's official seal were also discovered. According to Dr Hawas, the containers probably contained money that were destined to travel with the pharaoh to the afterlife. He said the containers will soon be opened. The objects were originally discovered, but not opened or removed from the tomb, by Howard Carter. King Tutankhamun still rests in his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, in a temperature-controlled glass case. On November 4, 2007, 85 years to the day since Howard Carter's discovery, the actual face of the 19-year-old pharaoh was put on view in his underground tomb at Luxor, when the linen-wrapped mummy was removed from its golden sarcophagus for display in a climate-controlled glass box. This was done to prevent the heightened rate of decomposition caused by the humidity and warmth from tourists visiting the tomb. Tutankhamun body has been shown in public form the 1st time in more than 3,000 years. This short clip was taken from BBC News 30th October 2007.

Object of the Month Discover some key objects, ahead of the new Museum of Somerset opening. What makes them special? What do the experts think? What do you think? July 2009 Bronze Age Shield Curator of Archaeology, Steve Minnit, is passionate about objects from the past. He wants to share what these artefacts meant to people thousands of years ago. Find out about an unexpected discovery from 1100-900 BC. This is the only Bronze Age shield found in an archaeological excavation. What was it used for? How did we find it?

Head of King Naga (Sudan) 3D Scan

eru's government archaeologist say they have found an Inca mummy and 25 ceremonial objects at a site called Torontoy, some 20 kilometers from the ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu.

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We present VITA (Visual Interaction Tool for Archaeology), an experimental collaborative mixed reality system for offsite visualization of an archaeological dig. Our system allows multiple users to visualize the dig site in a mixed reality environment in which tracked, see-through, head-worn displays are combined with a multi-user, multi-touch, projected table surface, a large screen display, and tracked hand-held displays. We focus on augmenting existing archaeological analysis methods with new ways to organize, visualize, and combine the standard 2D information available from an excavation (drawings, pictures, and notes) with textured, laser rangescanned 3D models of objects and the site itself. Users can combine speech, touch, and 3D hand gestures to interact multimodally with the environment. Preliminary user tests were conducted with archaeology researchers and students, and their feedback is presented here. Authors: Hrvoje Benko: benko@cs.columbia.edu Edward Ishak: ishak@cs.columbia.edu Steven Feiner: feiner@cs.columbia.edu Please visit http://www.edwardishak.com for more information.)