Eternal Egypt receives the Arab e-content Award
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Alexandria — Last April, Dr. Fathy Saleh, Director of Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT), a center affiliated to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, received the Arab e-content Award 2005 for the website Eternal Egypt.
Dr. Iglal Bahgat, deputy director of CULTNAT, announced that Eternal Egypt brings the wondrous experience of Egypt to the world. It represents a unique partnership where innovative IBM technologies and services were used to create an interactive, multimedia experience of Egyptian cultural artifacts, places and history for audience all around the globe via the Internet.
The Eternal Egypt project combines the most important locations, artifacts, people and stories from Egypt’s history into an interactive multimedia experience. Three years in the making, the project has so far produced multimedia animations, 360-degree image sequences, panoramas of important locations, virtual environments, three-dimensional scans, real-time photos from Web cameras and thousands of high resolution images of ancient artifacts that weave together more than five millennia of Egyptian culture and civilization.
It is worth noting that Eternal Egypt, the project that is funded by IBM through a U.S. $2.5 million grant of technology and expertise from its Research and Services teams in the U.S. and Egypt, also won the World Summit Award (WSA) in the e-Culture category, along with four projects from Armenia, France, Russia and the USA.
Visit: www.eternalegypt.org