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Ancient civilization goes online

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Article in 'Nature' (requires free subscription to site)

ABSTRACT
Internet Mesoamerica archive should aid virtual excavation.
1 April 2003

HANNAH HOAG

Archaeologists could soon be making discoveries about the Maya from their computers. The first stage of a new online database is set to go live later this year, housing hundreds of thousands of documents on the excavation of Tikal, one of the most important settlements in ninth-century Mesoamerica.

The Tikal Digital Access Project will enable everyone from schoolchildren to scholars to search the notes, photographs and sketches made by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology when they worked at the site between 1956 and 1970.
 
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