Great mosaics. Thanks. I g o r
----- Original Message ----- From: "Aidan O Driscoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:04 PM Subject: ZEUGMA - appeal to your artistic side - slightly off topic! > Hi Guys, > > This message is a little off topic but I thought - seeming 3D is art that > you guys might be interested. I was watching a show on BBC earlier today > about ZEUGMA - this is an archeological super find in Turkey. A place of > Roman Villa's with amazing Mosaics. Before anymore is said have a look here: > > http://www.zeugmaweb.com/zeugma/english/engindex.htm > > Particularly at the Download Page to grab some images for your desktop. > > I had heard of this before but forgot about it :( - Maybe ye guys came > across this before too, but worth a revisit. Google for more up to date info? > > The tragedy of this find is that it is now being slowly flooded / has been > flooded as it is in the receiving end of a recent dam which went into > operation. Alot of the villa's which may have had mosaics and alot more are > now under water for ever. > > I know - progress has to happen, but when I saw this on television I felt > saddened at the loss of such an archeological find. > > Enjoy the site and pics - have a look also at the Zeugma in Press page for > more detail. > > In the show on the BBC they recreated one of the villa's in 3D - have to > say it was good 3D work. From this villa at least they salvaged most of the > mosaics by cutting them out and building them again off site, > > Cheers > Aidan >
