Since the 25th of April until today, the 8th of September 2013, the Uruk exhibition “Uruk – 5.000 years of the megacity” was presented at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin. The exhibition attracted over 400.000 visitors in 19 weeks. On busy days, around 6.000 visitors a day walked trough the halls of the Pergamonmuseum and learned […]
When: 11th of July 2013, 6 p.m., free entry, presentation in German Where: Gobelin-Saal, Bode-Museum, Am Kupfergraben 1, 10178 Berlin What: Monumental architecture of the 4th and 3rd mill. BCE in Uruk Who: Prof. Ricardo Eichmann (DAI) and Sebastian Hageneuer (Artefacts) Prof. Ricardo Eichmann will talk about the monumental architecture of Uruk and its evolution. He will give […]
Today, I was in the neighbourhood of the Pergamonmuseum and used that to do a check-up on the animations. Everything was working fine of course. While I was going through the exhibition, I was rather watching the people enjoying, than the exhibition itself. Of course, I have visited several times and had therefore eyes for […]
In the very first issue of “Archäologie Weltweit” (1/2013) is an article about Uruk and the exhibition, which features two of our pictures. One shows the sliced building C of the Late Uruk Period and the other the ziggurat of the Ur III Period. This new magazine is published by the German Archaeological Institute and […]
In this issue of the “Antike Welt” (3/2013) are a couple of pictures from our Uruk visualisations and we even made it onto the cover! Well, I know it is not People Magazine, but we are nonetheless very proud. You’ll see visualisations of the Ur III Period, the Late Uruk Period and the Seleucid Period. […]
Since today, you can purchase a nice little postcard at the museumshop of the Pergamonmuseum Berlin. It depicts the Seleucid Bit Resh and in it’s centre the Anu-Antum-Temple. It is basically the same motif as you can see in our project description of the Seleucid Period in Uruk. There are only 1.000 cards, so be […]
After the exhibition “Uruk – 5000 years of the Megacity” has finally opened and is still running, we will – step by step – release some of the material that you can see in the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue. Today, we uploaded the project page of the White Temple. The inside view of the […]
The first week of the exhibition was pretty eventful. First, the opening was a full success, many have come to get a first look at the exhibition. We were very happy that everything was ready and of course that our animations were running smoothly. We got a lot of congratulations for which we are very […]
We gave an interview in the Tagesspiegel about our work that is displayed in the exhibition “Uruk – 5000 years of the megacity“, which will be open on the 25th of April 2013. There is an online version of the article here.
It doesn’t look like much, but these are actually the results of five years of work. The five animations are finally done and ready to implement into the exhibition “Uruk – 5.000 years of the megacity“, which will be open to the public on the 25th of April 2013 in the Pergamonmuseum Berlin. Tomorrow, we […]
On the 25th of April, that’s in about two weeks, the exhibition “Uruk – 5.000 years of the megacity” will be open to the public at the Pergamon Museum Berlin. For the last five years we were working closely with the German Archaeological Institute to reconstruct major parts of the ancient city of Uruk. Some […]
For a while now, we have been working on several reconstructions for the Uruk Visualisation Project. On our website you will find examples from the Late Uruk Period as well as the Seleucid Period. Besides that, we visualised the ziggurat of the Ur-III Period as well as the famous White Temple, the Stone-Cone Building and the Sin-kashid […]