My time this past week has mainly been spent on editing my thesis chapters. When writing new material, I have been focussed on the use of the term landscape. We often hear people use such phrases as ‘the landscape is beautiful’ or ‘it’s a picturesque landscape’, and I have used the term ‘landscape model’ in…
Modelling a mastaba
Tomb 3505 – from paper-based plan to digital 3D model. When I am creating a model of a structure I generally begin with the feature plan in the excavation report or published volume. With regards to the archaic mastaba tombs at North Saqqara the published works of W.B.Emery are authoritative. In the construction of mastaba…
Welcome to Digital Saqqara
Having returned from the International Congress of Egyptologists XI I felt enthused enough to create a blog to preserve a record of my trials and tribulations whilst undertaking my PhD. The conference was set in the picturesque city of Florence, Italy, and was hosted at the Universita Degli Studi Firenze, situated close to the Museo…
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