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Google Time Travel?

GOOGLE TIME TRAVEL?
Visualizing Egypt’s Elephantine with Vienna University of Technology’s gePublish

Posted on 2008/03/16 by Stefan Geens (Ogle Earth)

In the run-up to the talk about Google Earth and Egypt, Peter Ferschin at the Institute of Architectural Sciences, Digital Architecture and Planning at the Vienna University of Technology got in touch to show what he and his colleagues have been working on in association with the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Cairo: A KML and COLLADA content management system called gePublish that really pushes the envelope in helping archaeologists visualize how ancient settlements evolved over time.

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Cool graphics.

For much more on ancient Elephantine and its Aramaic papyri, see here and links.