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

[Carlos]

Caution!   Hold on to your chair as you become adjusted to the special 
effects.
carlos

michael ruggeri wrote:
>> 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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