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About this website

This website is built specifically for and with the partnership of 6th grade teachers in the United States nearby where your author, Luke, was living. These teachers were teaching Ancient Egypt, and I wanted to see where things went with helping to use the virtual tours that I was making for them.

This website serves as an experimental project dedicated to a general public audience and owes much to the other Giza Project research website. It especially hopes to help teachers integrate resources from Giza with teaching about Ancient Egypt.

I created the tours working on site at Giza over the span of several years under the direction of Doctor Wael Fathy, and with help from several inspectors working at Giza, such as Hesham Ahmed and Ezzat Salama.

The stories, tours, and quizzes here were written variously by two of my friends, Tessa Litecky and Talya Stanke; my parents, Jeff and Ellen Hollis; and myself. I'll add in more credit lines during the next round of content updates but noted in the tours the authors where relevant. Major thanks to Doctors Peter Der Manuelian and Nicolas Picardo who consulted and provided edits.

Other than the historical excavation and artifact photos from the Giza Project research website, I took the photos, videos, and 3d scans featured here.

Thanks for visiting, and I hope that you enjoyed seeing this website! Also be sure to check out the Giza Project website at giza.fas.harvard.edu.

I intend this site to be under perpetual development--and will likely update and change more soon as there are new features to test.