The Virtual Angkor project aims to recreate the sprawling Cambodian metropolis of Angkor at the height of the Khmer empire’s power and influence around 1300 C.E. A groundbreaking collaboration between Archaeologists, Historians and Virtual History specialists based in Australia, Cambodia and the United States, the project is designed to bring Angkor to life. Built for the classroom, it has been created to take students into a 3D world, allowing them to view the famous bas-reliefs first hand without leaving their seats, to inspect a marketplace selling goods from across the region and to watch as thousands of animated people and processions circulate around the complex. The reconstructed city enables teachers to draw students into an immersive, historically accurate world and then to use this as a starting point for further investigation.
The project has been awarded the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History in 2019, the Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize from the Medieval Academy of America in 2021 and a Gold Medal from the QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Awards in 2021.
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