“Eternal Egypt” IBM and the Egyptian Government Provide Worldwide Access to Egypt’s Cultural Heritage
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An extraordinary partnership between the Egyptian government and IBM has created "Eternal Egypt," providing worldwide access to more than 5,000 years of Egyptian history.
Dr. Ahmed Nazif, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and Hans Ulrich Maerki, General Manager, IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa, held a joint press conference on 24th February, to bring the project to light.”
IBM funded the project through a U.S. $2.5 million grant of technology and expertise from its Research and Services teams in the U.S. and Egypt. The Egyptian government contributed a team of experts who developed the rich content of the system.
The Eternal Egypt project combines the most important locations, artifacts, people and stories from Egypt’s history into an interactive multimedia experience. Three years in the making, the project has so far produced multimedia animations, 360-degree image sequences, panoramas of important locations, virtual environments, three-dimensional scans, real-time photos from Web cameras and thousands of high resolution images of ancient artifacts that weave together more than five millennia of Egyptian culture and civilization.
For the first time ever visitors to the new Eternal Egypt Web site at www.eternalegypt.org can enter a virtual reconstruction of Tutankhamun"s tomb as it looked the day Howard Carter discovered the chamber in 1922, or view the Lighthouse of Alexandria as it appeared before it was destroyed in the 14th century. Viewers even can examine the face of the Sphinx as it looked 2,000 years ago.