Hieroglyph Demotic Greek From 452 to 1822, "Egypt was silent": The ability to read hieroglyphic inscriptions on monuments and tombs, and papyrus texts using cursive scripts like demotic, was lost.

The aggressive rate of growth of disk storage and, thus, the ability to store enormous quantities of data have far outpaced our ability to process and utilize that. This challenge has produced a phenomenon called data tombs—data is deposited to merely rest in peace, never to be accessed again. But the growing appreciation that data tombs represent missed opportunities in cases supporting scient...

As scholars, it is important to remember our own folly and the cultural biases we may be inadvertently projecting upon our scholarship. Nineteenth century excavators were appalled by piles of charred bones, terracotta and architectural fragments that were found near and in the tombs at Pompeii. It appeared to these excavators that Pompeians neglected their tomb sites and allowed rubbish and tra...

This paper aims to describe a prototypal immersive virtual reality application, running in a Virtual Theater, that uses portable terminals to visualize multimedia data and to manage the interaction with 3D models regarding the survey and restoration of eight tombs along the ancient Rome’s Appian Way. The starting point of our work is a 3D Web application where the user, interacting with VRML mo...