Digital Humanities at Berkeley recently awarded more than $75,000 in grants to UCB community members in the area of Collaborative Research. This project is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon grant: Capacity Building and Integration in the Digital Humanities.

Rita Lucarelli creates 3D images of ancient Egyptian coffins. Using Agisoft Photoscan, the Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and her team transform 2D photographs into 3D models before annotating the virtual figures with transliterations, translations, and other relevant data. Since Egyptian hieroglyphics adorning funerary materials were copied and read from different directions, 3D interaction with digitized images provides better access to the texts of such objects than traditional 2D representations.

Digital Humanities at Berkeley is pleased to announce grant awards inthe areas of Collaborative Research and New Courses. Digital humanities consulting is available to all researchers, regardless of their funding status. This project is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon grant: Capacity Building and Integration in the Digital Humanities.  View all Digital Humanities at Berkeley funded projects and courses.