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Reviving ancient Egyptian scenes

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DOI:10.1109/VSMM.2014.7136648
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Authors: Saleh Fathi / Badawi Mohamed Farouk / Harb Mohamed Ismail / Omar Karim

Extracted Abstract:

—Pharaonic inscriptions contain a lot of scenes that illustrate many activities in ancient Egypt, such as daily life activities, religious rituals, festivals, battles, etc. This paper aims to show how the Egyptian Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) used computer graphics in some projects to visualize the ancient Egyptian scenes in an attractive manner. This paper is concerned with four different projects; namely the botanical garden in Karnak temple, the Zodiac of Dendera Temple, the Opet Festival, Kadesh Battle. In each of them, the heritage data visualization was realized with different methodology that suits better the content being presented. The paper describes those different methodologies, why they were used and challenges faced to achieve those projects. Keywords—visualization; computer graphics; Multimedia; Culturama; Zodiac; Dendera; Karnak; Kadesh; Opet I.

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