Internet and History: The Virtual Archaeology Museum appeared on the Web

In December 2016, in the Internet will be running an informative portal "Archeoglobus" - a virtual museum of archeology, dedicated to the unique archaeological finds from the collections of state museums. This inter-museum project is initiated by the Oriental Museum, the Pushkin Museum and the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology, implemented with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Russia.  

On the website of the Virtual Archeology Museum will be featured historic three-dimensional reconstructions of large archaeological sites, the findings of which are well represented in the collections of the Museum of the East and the Pushkin Museum. The portal will tell about the archeology of scientific and popular language, to acquaint the visitor with articles of well-known archaeologists and historians.

It will be available the oldest finds in the Crimea and Uzbekistan, made by the participants of archaeological expeditions of the Pushkin Museum, the State Museum of Oriental Art in the Soviet period - 3D-model and the historical reconstruction of the settlement Panticapaeum of VI century BC (Capital of the Cimmerian Bosporus in the Crimea), as well as a Buddhist monastery complex in Kara-Tepe I century AD.  

In addition, a special "Archeoglobus" section is highlighted by multimedia special projects on the basis of materials of the Institute of Archaeology Academy of Sciences, which is currently engaged in, inter alia, the excavations in the Moscow Kremlin.