The Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) is spearheading an effort to build the Digital Archaeology Atlas of the Holy Land (DAAHL), an online, interactive database for scholars and the public at large.

At this special event for Judaic Studies, you'll hear about plans for DAAHL and also:

Watch CISA's HD video re-creation of Pharaoh Shishak I's military campaign in the Holy Land, and learn how digital archaeology is shedding new life on the history of one of only two Egyptian pharaohs mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

Walk into a Leonardo: as you step closer to the screen, you'll see what's beneath the surface, including da Vinci's original drawing.

This CISA3 technology could one day be used by museums worldwide for giving the public a deeper experience of works of art and how they were created. Go inside the 360-degree StarCAVE, a virtual-reality environment, to navigate in 3D around a copper production center from the time of King Type to enter text Solomon, flying below the surface to trace the archaeological record;

See stunning, interactive visualizations on the HIPerSpace wall, the world's highest-resolution display at 220 million pixels!, including a demonstration of the details that archaeologists can re-create through laser scanning of archaeological sites in the Holy Land - tools already being used by CISA3 to scan Native American sites;

Lecture will begin at 6:45 In Search of Solomon, Gabriel and Internet Archaeology: Using Engineering and Scientific Methods to Explore the Past Given by:

Thomas Levy, Professor,
Director, UCSD Judaic Studies Program
Associate Director, CISA3 Archaeology

Maurizio Seracini, Ph.D., Director, CISA3

Falko Kuester, Associate Professor,
Jacobs School of Engineering
Calit2 Professor of Visualization and Virtual Reality