Are you teaching Egypt? Check out this resource on the History Channel.
Mummy: The Inside Story. Tune In on Sunday, September 25 @ 7pm ET/PT.
In an incredible investigation that uncovers the inside story of how
the British Museum in London resurrected an Egyptian mummy in
cyberspace, we begin in the museum basement and end where no one has
gone before. Egyptologist John Taylor and a team of virtual reality
experts from computer giant SGI transformed the mummified body of
Nesperennub--an ancient Egyptian priest--into the world's first virtual
mummy. From a set of 1500 CAT scans, they created a 3-D model of the
mummy that could be "unwrapped" in the computer. The stunning
stereoscopic images reveal Nesperennub's body in amazing clarity--and
exactly like the embalmers left it in 800 BC! By going under the wraps
of Nesperennub, we journey into the life and times of this ancient
Egyptian.
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