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.

Join Archaeologist & Historian James Balme in his latest short film release. He takes us on a walk through history in the quiet Cheshire village of Warburton visiting the ancient church of St Werburgh as he explains his archaeological and historical research and shows us various interesting areas of the village including the remains of the village cross and stocks from the middle ages that is not where it originally stood !!!!

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A classic scene from the eerie vintage short-film adaptation of the M.R James Story, 'A warning to the Curious'. This is the scene where the amateur archaeologist meets a mysterious local guardian. But not before he warns him with the words 'no digging here'.

In early August, 2006, the Russian nuclear icebreaker Yamal voyaged to the North Pole and back. Along the way, Dr. P.J. Capelotti records the expedition base camps of Frederick Jackson at Cape Flora, Fridtjof Nansen at Cape Norway, and Walter Wellman at Cape Tegetthoff. This channel is for students in the Anthropology and American Studies courses taught by Dr. P.J. Capelotti at Penn State Abington College in Abington, PA. Here you will find videos related to cultural anthropology; the theory, method, and history of archaeology; and to the history and archaeology of polar exploration. http://www.youtube.com/PSUAbingtonAnthy

Archaeologists have discovered a gold necklace over four thousand years old. It is the oldest gold artifact discovered in the Americas yet. Here's more on the story. Archaeologists have just discovered an ancient golden artifact in Peru. The necklace was found near Lake Titicaca on Monday. Using Radiocarbon dating, scientists estimate the necklace was made around 2100 B.C. Anthropologist Mark Aldenderfer of the University of Arizona and colleagues discovered the necklace next to an adult skull in a burial pit at Jiskairumoko. Jiskairumoko is a small hamlet settled by hunter-gathers from 3300 to 1500 BC. Archaeologists from Peru's National Culture Institue say the necklace could be even older than that. [Eugenia Cevallos, Archaeologist]: Male