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Digging Digitally recently posted an entry discussing the potential of crowd-sourcing for archaeological endeavors. There are a number of projects in the fields of astronomy, climatology, and seismology that already have shown great benefit from setting up a...
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I love it when technology solves an old problem or facilitates discoveries! This new method for recording excavation information in the field is infinitely more efficient than the traditional ‘pencil and paper’ method, allowing the researcher to instantly...
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While this website has no political agenda, we do wish to recognize anyone that seeks to bring multiple perspectives, approaches, philosophies, and an array of academic expertise to any subject. For example, the Art of Counting seeks to blend visual analysis with...
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In this TED talk, David McCandless presents his work on data visualization. His process allows vast amounts of information to be quickly conveyed and understood and can identify subtle patterns hidden within the data itself. ...
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Owen Jarus at Heritage Key reports on a fantastic project focused on the Amarna talatat at Karnak. Looking forward to gaining access to their database once they make it available! Archaeologists are examining a cache of talatat blocks in Luxor that depict Amarna...
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Kate Phizackerley announced in her blog yesterday that a WordPress hieroglyph plugin is now in development! This is a big project and has recently been initiated, but once completed, this plugin will provide a very valuable resource for Egypt blogs and web-based...