Tag: Tomb

  • Nation & World

    Armchair travels with a purpose

    Digital Giza Project lets scholars virtually visit sites in Egypt and beyond and, even print them in 3-D.

    10 minutes
    Students wearing 3D glasses view a visualization of an Egyptian tomb.
  • Nation & World

    Desert mystery

    In a talk at Harvard’s Semitic Museum, archaeologist Robert Mason described the discovery of mysterious rock formations near an ancient monastery in Syria.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Tut, tut!

    Ralph Mitchell, a Harvard professor and authority on cultural heritage microbiology, investigates “fingerprints” left on the walls of Egyptian King Tutankhamen’s tomb by ancient microbes.

    5 minutes