Enjoy an online tour of a royal tomb and three other historic Egyptian sites. Harvard University provided the 3D modelling that makes the exprience feel real, and provides information and computer reconstruction of the sites.
#1 Tomb of Queen Meresankh III (5,000 years old)
Hewn from the bedrock, the tomb was excavated in 1927 by Harvard’s George Andrew Reisner. Hieroglyphs established it as that of Meresankh III, daughter of fourth dynasty Prince Kawab and Hetepheres II, granddaughter of the Great Pyramid builder Cheops. The American archaeologist was wowed by the quality of its painting. “None of us had ever seen anything like it,” Reisner wrote later in the Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts.
On either side of the entrance, fine bas-reliefs daubed with earthy, 5,000-year-old pigments capture the tomb’s preparation. Sculptors chisel funerary monuments. Hunters net waterbirds and a line of servants bears baskets of offerings. Intended to sustain Meresankh’s soul in the afterlife, they are a snapshot of life five millennia ago.
Wearing a white robe, the queen is pictured on an opposite wall and as a statue, arm in arm with her mother, in an antechamber west of the entrance. Ancient Egyptians interpreted the setting of the sun in the west as the gateway to the dead – and beneath a panel of bakers shaping triangular loaves, wooden steps drop into the tomb’s guts.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/15/egyptian-tomb-ancient-wonders-open-for-virtual-tour-in-lockdown
#2 Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Barquq, a 14th-century religious school
#3 Coptic Red Monastery in Upper Egypt with frescos of Coptic saints
#4 Ben Erza synagogue founded on the site where Moses was discovered
Coptic Red Monastery in Upper Egypt