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An Ancient Board Game - Irving Finkel
Video by The British Museum

An Ancient Board Game - Irving Finkel

Irving Finkel has possibly the coolest job in the world – he’s curator of cuneiform at the British Museum! Since 1979 he’s been trawling the Museum’s 130,000 clay tablets for clues about life in ancient Mesopotamia. In this film, he tells...
The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia
Video by Zero One Animation

The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia

Following on from the immensely successful "Day in Pompeii" exhibit, Melbourne Museum again contracted Zero One to create animation that captures the look and feel of the ancient city of Ur. Many weeks of research and consultation with expert...
A Day in Pompeii - Full-length animation
Video by Zero One Animation

A Day in Pompeii - Full-length animation

www.zerooneanimation.com A Day in Pompeii, a Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, was held at Melbourne Museum from 26 June to 25 October 2009. Over 330,000 people visited the exhibition — an average of more than 2,700 per day...
Conservation of a Crocodile Mummy
Video by The British Museum

Conservation of a Crocodile Mummy

The British Museum takes an in-depth look at the conservation processes involved in getting a crocodile mummy ready for display for the first time in 75 years, bringing to light some fascinating new facts about this crocodile mummy. You can...
How to Play an Ancient African Rock Gong
Video by The British Museum

How to Play an Ancient African Rock Gong

The British Museum invited Dr Cornelia Kleinitz, an archaeologist specialising in rock art, and Liam Williamson, a modern rock drummer, to try and discover how a rock gong might have been played. This was the result. Rock gongs are a...
Genevieve von Petzinger Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?
Video by Maikel Akkermans

Genevieve von Petzinger Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?

Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they sheltered...
Romulus and Remus: a History of a Nation in Coins
Video by Ancient History Encyclopedia

Romulus and Remus: a History of a Nation in Coins

This latest AHE video takes a look at how the Roman people represented the myth of Romulus and Remus on their coinage. Spanning in time from 269 BCE- 248 CE. Ancient History Encyclopedia www.ancient.eu
Tikal 3D Laser Scan Fly-through
Video by CyArk

Tikal 3D Laser Scan Fly-through

3D fly through created from laser scan and photography at Maya city of Tikal (300-850 CE) in Guatemala by CyArk.
Ancient Egyptian Language
Video by KEMET Egypt

Ancient Egyptian Language

Here is a video to try to have a better look at what was the ancient Egyptian language,what some letters meant and what different methods of writing were there? Through an imagination trip through time, come with me Nora Hesham to have a...
Women in ancient Egypt part 1  ISIS
Video by KEMET Egypt

Women in ancient Egypt part 1 ISIS

This video is about Isis and Osiris and the role of Egyptian women in history...and the first woman to stand up for her love.
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