www.faulkes-telescope.com Children have direct access to two professional research telescopes - one in Australia and the other in Hawaii. They register and book viewing times. Lots of resouces...find and name your asteroid - for real! Do some real robotics - control a giant telescope from the comfort of your school. if you liked this...try the Starter onSpace
The British Pathe Archive has 3 stories. Two from 1922 with shots of the site and Howard Carter but not of the treasures. • THEBES (aka THEBES - THE MODERN ALLADIN'S CAVE) 14/12/1922 292.23 • TUTANKHAMEN'S TOMB 1922 2382.13 ...and one from 1963 in full colour with sound and good shots of the treasures. • TUTANKHAMUN 06/10/1963 245.01
...and in the British Museum... From July 2004 vistors will be able to see inside the mummy of Nesperennub, a priest who died in Egypt 3,000 years ago, on a 12 meter high screen. CAT (computed axial tomography) scans provide the data to recreate the body, skeleton and grave goods inside the mummy using VR software created by Silicon Graphics. One mystery remains...why has Nesperennub got a bowl stuck to his head? Read the Silicon Graphics article
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