Presentations

Invited keynote address on the future of museum publishing to the 16th National Museum Publishing Seminar, Boston Park Plaza Hotel (June 12–14, 2014). For the lecture video, click here.

Applying the 3D perspectives to the architectural puzzles of Giza, Peter Der Manuelian, professor of Egyptology at Harvard University and director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, explores the cultural landscape of ancient Egypt (July 23, 2013). For a 3:43 minute audio slide show, click here. For more about the project "Histoires courtes,"...

What if you could enter a decorated tomb chapel in a Giza pyramid, descend down an ancient burial shaft, or see 5,000-year-old inscriptions come to life—without ever having to travel? Peter Der Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is leading an effort to digitize the extensive archives available from sites in Giza to make remote antiquities more accessible. He draws on 3-D technology in Harvard's Visualization Center at the Geological Museum to create a real-time, interactive model of the pyramid site so students can immerse...

Presentation organized by the Office of Faculty Development & Diversity, Harvard University. For the 9-minute video, click here.