The Institute for the Visualization of History, Inc.
The content on this interactive disk/website was created especially for this publication by the Institute for the Visualization of History, Inc. (VIZIN; http://www.vizin.org), under the general guidance of Shelley Wachsmann (the Meadows Professor of Biblical Archeology at Texas A&M University, and the author of Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant (Texas A&M University Press, 1998, which received the Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the Archaeology of Israel) and The Sea of Galilee Boat: An Extraordinary 2000-Year-Old Discovery (Texas A&M University Press, 2009, which won the Biblical Archeology Society's award for best popular book).
Who We Are
VIZIN is a unique 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization using advanced computer graphics technologies for the documentation, study, teaching, and dissemination of information about cultural heritage. VIZIN comprises the longest-active team in the world engaged in creating innovative interactive educational, research, and museum-display packages using the most accurate, detailed, and precise historical re-creations that the evidence allows.
What We Do
We are not a graphics house dabbling in archaeology but are a professional staff of archaeologists, art and architectural historians, graphic artists, information scientists, and programmers who are dedicated to utilizing the power of visualization. The goals of the Institute are to use computer graphics technologies to provide new insight into the past, create new teaching and research tools for the present, and develop new digital preservation methods for the future.
Cultural Preservation
The worlds of education and cultural preservation are poised to benefit from a convergence of technologies and a shift in social awareness. The potential now exists to harness previously inconceivable advances in digital-image capture, manipulation, and display to transform both the teaching of history and the documenting of the world's cultural heritage--pursuits especially crucial today in our complex, rapidly changing world.
Our Expertise
Some of the expertise that VIZIN brings to new projects include: 3D computer modeling, virtual reality programming, high-resolution rendering, computer animations, digital publications, and Web design for teaching, research, broadcast, exhibit display, and tourism.
Our Clients
Some of the organizations for which our team has developed material include: Bryn Mawr College; National Geographic Television; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College; Harvard University; the Dalton School, NYC; Germantown Historical Society; Ministry of Education, Republic of Egypt; Dallas Museum of Art; France1 and France3 TV; Sopritendenza of Antiquities, Catania, Sicily; Metropolitan Museum of Art; University at Buffalo; History Channel; and Thames & Hudson Publishers.
Our Travels
Some of the sites and locations about which our team has created educational content include: Temples at Gebel Barkal, Nubia, Sudan; the Acropolis, Athens, Greece; Nemrud Dagi, Turkey; Northwest Palace, Nimrud, Assyria, Iraq; Tel Brak, Syria; Gateway Complex, Megiddo, Israel; Mashkan-shapir, Iraq; House of Many Colors, Olynthus, Greece; Hestiaterion, Palike, Sicily; Kyrenia Shipwreck, Cyprus; Royal Workshops, Mycenae, Greece; and the Sacred Precinct, Tel Dan, Israel.