by Art of Counting | Variable of the Day
Tomb of Khaemwaset (QV 44) NOTE: This royal scepter, known in Egyptian as a heka, was often paired with the flail....
by Art of Counting | Current Events Egypt, Endangered Sites
The Jasmine Revolution and ensuing political issues in Egypt have left the country in a decidedly tenuous position. Among the many significant challenges Egypt must struggle with now is how to properly protect it’s treasured, global heritage in a time of such...
by Art of Counting | Inspiration
The massive and wonderful Giza Archives project, a joint Harvard-MFA mission under the direction of Peter Der Manuelian, announced today that they have released an innovative 3D tour of the Giza plateau developed for the Harvard-MFA project by Dassault Systems. It’s...
by Art of Counting | Endangered Sites, Tacky Tourists
An article appeared recently from National Geographic about the first conference of the International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management and the state of World Heritage Sites. There is no doubt that Tacky Tourists are everywhere, but much of the...
by Art of Counting | Methods
An article on data mining appeared in the Atlantic yesterday. This brief piece explains a number of the complex methods of data mining in wonderfully simple terms. Discovering information from data takes two major forms: description and prediction. At the scale we...
