UCLA Puts the Temple of Karnak Online
The Digital Karnak Project, built by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is no small website. There are three main sections: the Time Map is a graphic representation of the historical progression of the site, Experience Karnak has a large amount of information in the form of PDF documents, videos and digital animations, while the Google Earth section of the site provides a downloadable KML file to view a model of the temple in Google Earth.
From the University of California at Los Angeles’s website:
“The features of this website have been designed to provide college classrooms (and the interested public) with easily accessible, up-to-date, expert material relating to the temple precinct. As part of this goal, a 3-D Virtual Reality model of the temple was constructed, offering students a completely new way to view the temple: reign-by-reign, following the complex patterns of royal construction, modification and destruction that are now obscured by the latest building phases at the site. Footage of this model, as well as original videos and maps, are accompanied by thematic essays written and reviewed by Egyptologists to supply students and instructors with reliable information in a digital and visually dynamic platform. A simplified version of the Virtual Reality model of the temple is also made available in Google Earth, for a completely interactive experience.”
Animations
The website has a large amount of videos and animations to view available in high quality. The animation above is just one of many that provide the visitor with unique views of the temple in it’s former glory.
Time Map
Stages of the site can be viewed with the use of the scale on the Time Map feature of the site. The Digital Karnak website has many other features and is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the Karnak temple.
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