Visualizing the Pyramids: Old Digs, New Technologies

Visualizing the Pyramids: Old Digs, New Technologies | Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard

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The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

11 ай бұрын

Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard University's Giza Project
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures welcomes back alumni Peter Der Manuelian, Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology; Director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, and Harvard University’s Giza Project Director. Manuelian will present an illustrated lecture summarizing some of the great discoveries, archaeological significance, and fascinating personalities behind the expeditions to the tombs and temples surrounding the famous Giza Pyramids. This includes George Reisner, the only rival to James Breasted for the title of greatest American Egyptologist of the time. He will present new technologies for bringing old digs back to life for international collaborative research and teaching.

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@IanDavies-gy4mg 28 күн бұрын

What a great project. The next generation of Egyptologists will get a head start with all this.

@MissTryALot 27 күн бұрын

Fantastic, enjoyed this very much. What a real treat. ❤

@LSOP- 11 ай бұрын

Talk starts at 5:23

@thia9184 11 ай бұрын

Loved "Visualizing the Pyramids" thank you, I enjoyed the presentation . Looking forward to more📚.

@bettinaterhaar8674 25 күн бұрын

Great lecture! And fascinating 3d Models, I Wish those existed for more Sites!

@marcwichmann2012 11 ай бұрын

Thank you all for the Great Work, to bring to the World to us all of you Knowledge, this is so amazing and fabulous... Many many Thanks from Berlin

@lexoefed1 11 ай бұрын

Потрясающе, amazing and thank you for this great work and lecture

@frederickbowdler8169 8 ай бұрын

super talk you got me interested in the..... Modern Egyptology. 😊

@Rain-Dirt 11 ай бұрын

It's rather interesting. @33:30 We know ancient egyptians depicted things not in a pure natural way, but rather how they thought things are best presented. The statue of Menkaure f.e. shows very broad shoulders and body with a relative smaller head proportionally speaking. The same can be said of the sphinx with it's larger body, but smaller head in the same fashion as the statue of Menkaure. This could perhaps also be an argument that the sphinx is not build from 1000's years earlier civilization, but is genuinly from the Old Kingdom.

@christianfrommuslim 11 ай бұрын

Great project! The final picture of the pyramids in romantic landscape could be sold as copies to raise funds. Beautiful! Direction facing? Photographer?

@jpkatz1435 10 ай бұрын

Yes, a print or download will spread the knowledge of what you have.

@christianfrommuslim 10 ай бұрын

@@jpkatz1435 Thank you. I am speaking of the final photo in the presentation.

@MissTryALot 27 күн бұрын

'Late period king', otherwise known as a father.

@OssianLore 11 ай бұрын

So important 59:00

@OssianLore 11 ай бұрын

And 1:08:07

@jpkatz1435 10 ай бұрын

Still no source material on piramid construction process. That is amazing.

@bradm.3775 7 ай бұрын

I believe that there are hidden chambers under the Sphynx

@jahuti5065 3 ай бұрын

The ground beneath the Great Sphinx has been investigated and it has been ascertained to be fissured bedrock with considerable water encroachment. Before the building of the Aswan high dam in the 1960s this water table would have risen during the inundation period to only a few feet below the ground level. No chambers could have successfully dug into such fissured, flooded rock.