The Ming Great Wall (明長城; Ming changcheng), built by the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), forms the most visible parts of the Great Wall of China today. A comprehensive archaeological survey, using advanced technologies, has concluded that the Ming walls measure 8,850 km (5,500 mi) from Jiayu Pass in the west to the sea in Shanhai Pass, then looping over to terminate in Manchuria at the Hushan Great Wall.

See https://skfb.ly/RBvT for tower detail.

Great Wall survey

Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park. It is located on a dry plateau about 1.5 km (1 mi) from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, near the Israeli settlement and kibbutz of Kalya. The Hellenistic period settlement was constructed during the reign of John Hyrcanus, 134–104 BCE or somewhat later, and was occupied most of the time until it was destroyed by the Romans in 68 CE or shortly after. It is best known as the settlement nearest to the Qumran Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden, caves in the sheer desert cliffs and beneath, in the marl terrace. The principal excavations at Qumran were conducted by Roland de Vaux in the 1950s, though several later unearthings at the site have since been carried out.

Dead Sea Qumran

Unlike my mass-produced Ancient Khajiit armor, this badboy is an end-game, high-tier armor set, made with the mightiest metal, worked by the best blacksmiths, to be worn by the nobility of Roscrea. So I made the set in a way that players can wear it with pride... and hopefully flexing it on their friends next Monday morning.
Although our modern interpretation of the Vikings claims that they were no pretty boys, my study of Vendel period art says otherwise. According to many archaeological evidences, these pillagers took very good care of their appearance and hygiene, wear vibrant color palette and exquisite jewelry, and were capable of producing some of the most intricate art in contrary to popular belief.
     With that knowledge, I took certain liberties to gild certain part of the armor in gold and added some more intricate engravings. It was fun maintaining the balance between the elegance of nobility and the ruggedness of Skyrim’s Nordic populace.

Mastercraft Mithril Armor set for Beyond Skyrim2

This bright blue glass boardgame piece is crowned with a ring of white bobbles. It is likely to be the King from a set used for playing a version of 'tafl' - a family of games played in Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden which are derived from the Roman wargame Ludus Latrunculorum. It was found during a community-led archaeological dig on Lindisfarne, organised by DigVentures and Durham University.

Read more here: https://digventures.com/2020/02/stunning-1200-year-old-glass-king-gaming-piece-found-on-lindisfarne/

1200 year old boardgame piece from Lindisfarne

The archaeological ensemble of Melque is one of the most important historical sites of the High Middle Ages in Spain. It is located in the municipality of San Martín de Montalbán, just 30 kilometers from the city of Toledo. It consists of a very well preserved church, a monastery, several dams and a fence or wall. However, there is no consensus among experts about the date of its foundation. Some authors date it in the seventh century, in Visigothic times, while others consider that it was founded in the eighth century by Mozarabs, that is to say by Christians but under Muslim domination. The place was inhabited for centuries which has allowed the preservation of the church in an excellent state to this day.

Documented by Global Digital Heritage in September of 2018 using 1110 drone images, 112 terrestrial laser scans, and 1702 terrestrial photogrammetry images. These data were processed in Reality Capture.

Santa María de Melque (Toledo, Spain)

Chichen Itza,  from Yucatec Maya: Chi'ch'èen Ìitsha'  ("at the mouth of the well of the Itza people") was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal Classic period. The archaeological site is located in Tinúm Municipality, Yucatán State, Mexico.

Chichen Itza was a major focal point in the Northern Maya Lowlands from the Late Classic (c. AD 600–900) through the Terminal Classic (c. AD 800–900) and into the early portion of the Postclassic period (c. AD 900–1200). The site exhibits a multitude of architectural styles, reminiscent of styles seen in central Mexico and of the Puuc and Chenes styles of the Northern Maya lowlands. The presence of central Mexican styles was once thought to have been representative of direct migration or even conquest from central Mexico, but most contemporary interpretations view the presence of these non-Maya styles more as the result of cultural diffusion

[Map](https://goo.gl/maps/VJVGEidS9bH2)

Chichen Itza Pyramid 3D Reconstruction

One of the UK's most 'decorated' or deliberately marked stones. The study by Andy Jones and myself identified 105 cup marks, and up to 47 linear features that radiate from or link them together. 

Read a [popular article](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/07/07/ancient-stone-monuments-may-have-used-mysterious-moonlit-ceremonies/) in the Telegraph or if your organisation subscribes, read the [full research](http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1751696X.2017.1341241) in the journal Time and Mind.

This model was funded by [Cornwall Archaeological Society](https://cornisharchaeology.org.uk). The cup marks and grooves can be best seen with the "matcap" shader - selectable by clicking or tapping the Model Inspector tool from the 'stack' icon on the lower right of the viewer. Another good view is to select the AO option (from the 'stack' icon).

Read [my take on the discovery](http://tom.goskar.com/2017/07/11/hendraburnick-quoit-the-most-decorated-stone-in-southern-britain).

Hendraburnick Propped Stone

This reconstuction of Gresham Castle is entirely speculative and is based on evidence from the Paston Letters and other documents of the time. No archaeological evidence is available other than the standing remains of the walls.

The documentary evidence shows that the house was a timber framed building and resembled a typical four bay construction of the period with a central hall and chambers either side.

It is unclear whether the walls and towers belong to the fortifications made by Sir Edmund Bacon or are the result of a major rebuild by the Pastons following the siege of 1448.

Gresham Castle reconstruction

This raccoon baculum, or penis bone, has a groove near one end. This groove suggests 	that a cord was once tied around the object, probably to form a necklace. Male raccoons 	are known for their sexual aggression, which means this object may have been a fertility 	symbol. This object was recovered archaeologically from the House for Families at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. It was 3D scanned with a NextEngine Desktop 3D scanner in the archaeology laboratory at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Description by Virginia Commonwealth University student Jessica Evans. Digital model provided by the Virtual Curation Laboratory courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association.

Raccoon Baculum worn as Pendant (VCU_3D_2136)

This is a 3D model of a Neoclassical statuette, which copies an ancient marble statue in the National Archaeological Museum (Naples). It displays a woman (the goddess Aphrodite? a mortal?) partially draped in her robes. This pose and subject is a statue type called the “Aphrodite Kallipygian” (Callipygian Venus). This modern name came from the Greek words *kallos* (beauty) + *pyge* (buttocks). The original Roman work dates from the 1st c. BCE. It was recovered in the 16th c. missing its head.

**Biobliography**: [Auction Catalog](https://bit.ly/2x11ILY); statue type: [Wikipedia](https://bit.ly/3bQw5DT)

# Ancient World 3D
This model posting is part of [Ancient World 3D](https://exhibits.ulib.iupui.edu/aw3d/items/show/3), a project that provides curated 3D open access content for Classical Studies. The [original model was posted by Scan The World](http://mmf.io/o/71798). This entry was composed by Samantha Schlegel (Dr. Elizabeth Thill, advisor, Cheyenne Eversole, curator).

100.KZ.11 Aphrodite Kallipygos Statuette

Cast of female figurine in limestone from the Loess Station at Willendorf, Lower Austria. Dates to 23,000 BC or earlier.

These ‘Venus’ figures start to be carved by our modern ancestors over 30,000 years ago and may have been religious or fertility symbols.

Object in the Royal Pavilion & Museums' archaeological collections, digitised by the University of Brighton's Cultural Informatics team.

Accession number: R3411/56

Venus of Willendorf

Archaeological excavations Roman Aldborough May 2019. Photogrammetric model generated using Agisoft Metashape Pro from over 200 photographs taken using a tripod mounted Sigma DP0 Quattro camera. This camera employs a Foveon Sensor which has exceptional colour rendering properties ideal for documenting the subtle colour variations frequently experienced in archaeological deposits.

Aldborough 2019

[**Museum Village Düppel**](https://bit.ly/3q58lnq) is a seasonal open-air museum. It presents visitors with a reconstruction of an approximately 800-year-old village. The site of this former settlement has now been reconstructed with residences, storehouses, workshops, fields and gardens.

1967 marked the start of archaeological excavations in southwest Berlin. They revealed evidence of building foundations and farmyards of a village from the period just before 1200. Thanks to experimental archaeology, it was possible to rebuild the medieval village on the settlement’s original site. The village has developed into a widely recognised centre for experimental archaeology.

Digitized by the [HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, Institute  DE:HIVE](https://bit.ly/3cG7bug). The project was a part of a yearly programme, organized by [digiS](https://bit.ly/37e5Eae) and is financed by the [Senate of Berlin](https://bit.ly/3q55b2L).

**CC BY-Attribution: HTW Berlin - DE:HIVE/City Museum Berlin**

Museum Village Düppel - House 6

The Dome of the Rock (Arabic: قبة الصخرة, romanized: Qubbat aṣ-Ṣakhra) is an Islamic shrine at the center of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is the world's oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture, the earliest archaeologically attested religious structure to be built by a Muslim ruler and its inscriptions contain the earliest epigraphic proclamations of Islam and of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (pbuh).


This can be used for films, game prototypes, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR).

Masjid Al-Aqsa || Dome of the Rock 3D Model

Photogrammetric model of the Great Ziggurat of Ur created in DroneDeploy from aerial photographs taken by the team of the Lagash Archaeological Project of the Penn Museum on November 8th, 2021.

**Credits:**

[![Lagash Archaeological Project](https://web.sas.upenn.edu/lagash/files/2020/09/lagash-logo_lighter-200x200-1.png)](https://web.sas.upenn.edu/lagash/) ![SBAH](https://web.sas.upenn.edu/lagash/files/2020/09/State-Board-of-Antiquities-and-Heritage.jpeg)
[![Penn Museum](https://web.sas.upenn.edu/lagash/files/2020/09/pm-logo-blue-1.jpg)](https://www.penn.museum)

Ziggurat of Ur

Mammoth tusk found by  CITiZAN 
(Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network) Team 30th March 2017

Mammoth tusk

A LiDAR landscape of the key archaeological features around Stonehenge including Stonehenge itself, The Avenue, the Cursus and numerous barrow burial mounds. The 1 metre LiDAR is only partial at Stonehenge with many of the sites to the west not included in the current opendata coverage. This is a digital terrain model version which represents the bare ground surface only so prominent buildings, trees and even the stones of the Stonehenge circles are stripped off in this case. 

Created using 1 metre DTM LiDAR opendata provided by the Environment Agency. Built in QGIS using the QGIS2threeJS plugin.

Thanks to Mike Gill of the Avon Valley Archaeological Society for the python code which converts QGIS models into a format compatible with Sketchfab.

Best viewed full screen and in HD (see options at bottom of model view). Feel free to share on various media, download, or embed on your website using the embed code.

Stonehenge LiDAR Archaeology Landscape

Olympia (Greek: Ὀλυμπία; Ancient Greek: [olympía]; Modern Greek: [oli(m)ˈbia] Olymbía), is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name, which was a major Panhellenic religious sanctuary of ancient Greece, where the ancient Olympic Games were held. The site was primarily dedicated to Zeus and drew visitors from all over the Greek world as one of a group of such "Panhellenic" centres which helped to build the identity of the ancient Greeks as a nation. Despite the name, it is nowhere near Mount Olympus in northern Greece, where the Twelve Olympians, the major deities of Ancient Greek religion, were believed to live.
<br>
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium_at_Olympia) <br>
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Toegang_stadion.JPG/1280px-Toegang_stadion.JPG)

Stadium of Olympia, Greece

Dieses Gebäude wurde von archäologischen Erkenntnissen unterschiedlicher prähistorischer Hauspläne inspiriert. Es handelt sich um ein prähistorisches Grubenhaus mit drei Kuppelöfen zum Backen von Brot. Die Werkstätte wurde von einem eisenzeitlichen Rundhaus mit einem zentralen Pfosten überdacht.

This building was inspired by archaeological evidence from various prehistoric house plans. It is a prehistoric pit house with three domed ovens for baking bread. The workshop was covered by an Iron Age round house with a central post.

Mitterkirchen - Backhaus

Earl’s Hill Hillfort is an Iron Age enclosure 7 miles south west of Shrewsbury and immediately south east of the village of Pontesbury, Shropshire. The site consists of an earlier oval enclosure on the summit with a defended north gate and a later elongated annexe to the south extending along the top of the ridge. There is another defended enclosure approx. 400ft down through the woodland to the north known as Pontesford Hill Hillfort which is covered in trees.

Model created from drone photogrammetry using a DJI Phantom 4 Pro

You can read a detailed description of the hillfort here http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MSA763&resourceID=1015

There are links to two pdf archaeological reports on Earl’s Hill and Pontesford Hill here http://pontesfordhillfriends.co.uk/about-the-hill/pontesford-hill-and-earls-hill/archaeology-2/

The hill is also a Nature Reserve maintained by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust https://www.shropshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/reserves/earls-hill

Earl's Hill Hillort, Pontesbury, Shropshire

**Acheulean hand axe**

Location: Abbeville, France.

Period: Lower Paleolithic (before 300,000 years ago).

Material: flint.

Dimensions: length, 167.0 mm; width, 100.9 mm; thickness, 41.7 mm.

Notes: Catalog no. 518a2.  This specimen is part of a larger collection of artifacts that was acquired in 1929 by James Bell Bullitt during a tour of western Europe and later donated to the University of North Carolina.  Specimen resides in the North Carolina Archaeological Collection, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Model by Kathleen Brock.

Acheulean Hand Axe (518a2)

Astronomical quintant

Joseph von Utzschneider – artist / maker
Joseph Liebherr – artist / maker

1st half of the 19th century, Munich, Germany
Jagiellonian University Museum, Collegium Maius

This item is an observational astronomical instrument used to determine the altitude of celestial bodies above the horizon. It consists of a frame restricted by two radiuses and an arc with a scale, an observation telescope, and a mirror system. The arc of the quintant is the fifth part of a circle, hence its name, analogous to quadrants, sextants, and octants (based on the fourth, sixth, and eighth parts of a circle, respectively).

For more images and further information, visit: https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2779

Inventory number: 4103; 103/V

Localisation of the physical object: Archaeological Museum in Kraków

Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” Project

Astronomical quintant

Day 4 of Everyday a Scan - see the rest: https://sketchfab.com/azadbal/collections/everyday-a-scan

* Reconsuctrctoin of the battle between Greeks and Persians from the Alexander Sarcophagus, 2007.

* Original: Greek, Sidon (Lebanon), ca. 320 BC; Archaeological Museum, Instanbul.

* Reconstruction: RealityCapture + Mesh Mixer + Tilt Brush

#4 - Battle between Greeks and Persians, 320 BC

ID no.: TAR-11/3430

Archaeological Museum in Kraków

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2137

Digitalisation: RDW MIC, Virtual Małopolska project

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