In autumn 2023, an ambitious 3-year ARCE funded project entitled Akhenaten’s city: Protecting Amarna’s urban heritage, led by Dr Anna Stevens began. This project has several goals, including a 3D survey of the city landscape along with detailed 3D captures of selected urban structures. In this talk, showcasing ongoing 3D projects at Amarna, Paul will give a first look at the work done so far on this project and what can be expected once it is completed. Paul has also completed several surveys of the Great Aten Temple enabling the development of a series of reconstructive visualisations of the temple’s appearance in antiquity. These reconstructions of the temple and the early 3D reconstructions of the central city area will be presented along with a summary walkthrough of the construction process. Time permitting, Paul will also present some of the work he has been doing at the Temple of Ptah and the 8th pylon at Karnak.
Paul Docherty is currently pursuing a DPhil at the University of Oxford, investigating spaces, focusing on key areas within the temple complex of Karnak at Luxor and the Great Aten Temple at Amarna. A specialist in 3D modelling and reconstruction, Paul works with technologies such as laser scanning, photogrammetry, and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). He works as a Digital Archaeologist for the Amarna Project, contributing photogrammetric documentation of the ancient city of Akhetaten helping to develop a detailed 3D reconstruction of the city as it may have appeared during Akhenaten’s reign.
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