[Aztlan] Virtual tour of the tomb of Pakal viewing instructions

[michael ruggeri]

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> To view the 360 view of Pacal's Tomb, you have to begin by clicking  
> on the map of Palenque, which will indicate a number of areas of the  
> site by a circle of arrows around a number. Click onto the one for  
> the Temple of the Inscriptions and look for the blue triangles.  
> Clicking on those will "walk you through" a number of 360's, taking  
> you into the temple, down the stairs, and into the tomb.
>
> -Patricia Sarro
>
> Dr. Patricia Sarro
> Department of Art
> Youngstown State University
> Youngstown, OH 44555-3627
> tel: 330-941-1548
> fax: 330-941-7183
>
> --- On Sun, 8/2/09, michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri at mac.com> wrote:
>
> From: michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri at mac.com>
> Subject: [Aztlan] Virtual tour of the tomb of Pakal
> To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 11:01 PM
>
> Listeros,
>
> The tomb of Pakal at Palenque has been closed to the public since
> 2004. But now, you can take a virtual tour of Palenque and Yaxchilan.
> Erik Boot has posted the news on his web page here with the info
> below. I have not been able to get into the tomb view yet but maybe
> you can.
>
>
> Erik Boot's Maya News Updates
> http://mayanewsupdates.blogspot.com/
>
> INAH Reopens K'ihnich Janaab Pakal's Tomb On The Internet
> To protect the tomb of K'inich Janaab Pakal in Palenque, Chiapas,
> Mexico, the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia closed the
> tomb to public access in 2004. Visits to the tomb remained possible
> through the replica in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico
> City and, since a couple of years, through the replica en the Museo
> del Sitio de Palenque. From today, a visit of Pakal's tomb is possible
> again, but now in a virtual way on the internet, as is reported today,
> Saurday August 1, 2009, in the online edition of the daily Mexican
> newspaper El Universal (edited by MNU):
> The virtual tour of the tomb (click on Mapa recorrido de Palenque,
> followed by a click on the line 3 Templo de las Inscripciones) is
> actually very nicely done and at the end has two 360 degree panorama
> shots from the inside of the tomb. And these are views that were not
> available before, because as a visitor to the site prior to 2004 the
> thing between the visitor and the tomb was a fence.
>
> Mike Ruggeri
> http://culturainah.org/panorama360/palenque/
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