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SUMMARY:Educare Region Tour
DESCRIPTION:Think back on your first days in a virtual world: A confounding jumble of pop-up options blocking the scenery; embarrassing moments stuck bouncing off walls — that’s what we may recall. The Educare region provides a gentle first-time orientation for newcomers (and hesitant returnees) to explore VW education possibilities. For this ‘tour’ please land at the Orientation Dome\, give it a quick walk-through\, then climb the stairs to the large lit Auditorium above. Throughout your visit\, please try to adopt the perspective of a first-time VW visitor. You’ll be asked to share that imagined experience as you visit Educare region resources and rides. Welcome! \n Field trip by Dr. Steven Van Hook \n   \nBio: Dr. Steven R. Van Hook has developed and taught mixed-format courses in cross-cultural communications and global affairs for the University of California and other universities in the United States and abroad. He’s been a newspaper columnist\, radio talk show host\, TV news anchor\, and television bureau chief in Moscow covering the fall of the Soviet Union. He has directed international public education campaigns through the United States Agency for International Development. He has a PhD specializing in transcultural learning\, and is published in scholarly journals including SAGE\, and UNESCO’s Prospects. Research website \n  \nIs this the first time you will attend a presentation with us?\nFollow this link first. \n 
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SUMMARY:Archaeology of Northern Ethiopia & Eritrea
DESCRIPTION:Archaeology of Northern Ethiopia & Eritrea\n  \nAbyssinia\, which is intended as a living museum & educational resource on the Science Circle’s OpenSim grid\, is my reconstruction of ancient archaeological sites in Tigray (northern Ethiopia) & Eritrea that date from at least 1000 BCE through roughly 800 CE. I excavated at several of these sites decades ago (1969-1972)\, & now am restoring parts of them virtually to their prominence during their heyday. Currently I have constructed two major buildings & other parts of Yeha\, capital of the kingdom then known as Di’amat\, located in Tigray\, as well as a palace at Metera in Eritrea\, representing the Aksumite period. \n  \nRestoration of 2\,700-year-old temple in Yeha/Ethiopia completed\n  \nI created a similar project on Second Life more than a decade ago\, but technical & financial issues prevented its continuation\, so I am grateful to be able to created it again. \nFramed within the striking dragon-tooth mountains characteristic of the region\, Yeha was the administrative & religious capital of a kingdom that controlled trade along the Red Sea together with its counterpart & related South Arabian kingdom Saba’ in what is now Yemen\, The language\, culture\, religion\, & architecture of the two kingdoms bear strong similarities\, indicating their close contact. \nThere are two major buildings in Yeha from that period\, the Great Temple\, which still remains largely standing\, & the administrative palace\, whose ruins are known as Grat Be’al Gibri (the Field of the Tax Collector). I participated in the first two seasons of excavation at the latter\, during which the front of the building\, including a colonnaded portico\, were opened.   \nSubsequent more recent excavations on both buildings by a joint German-Ethiopian team have revealed many additional details about them\, which are incorporated in my full-scale recreations of the buildings\, which can be fully explored. I also included several other structures which represent other aspects of the city as it must have appeared at that time\, including houses\, a market\, a pavilion for a royal festival\, farm fields\, & a representative war elephant\, which were one of the exports from the kingdom to the Mediterranean & the Middle East. As time & space permit\, it is my intention to add other important sites from both Tigray & Eritrea. \nThis project has gained greater significance for me since the tragic war which has been fought throughout Tigray since November 2020\, causing great human suffering & destruction. Many of the sites & artefacts that have been or will be represented are located in Tigray\, which now is undergoing the upheaval of disastrous civil war. \n \nA new region & archaeological period has been added with the restoration of an Aksumite palace. So far this consists of an amalgam of different sites in Eritrea & Tigray dating between the 4th & 6th centuries CE\, based primarily on a palace designated Mat-A at Metera in Eritrea\, where I participated in the last two seasons of excavation during 1969 & 1970\, as well as one of the palaces at Aksum in Tigray where I worked during 1971 & 1972. \nI dedicate this project to the people of Tigray\, as well as those of Ethiopia & Eritrea\, with urgent hopes for return to peace & stability. \n  \nThis is an excursion in OpenSim with Archaeologist Skip Dahlgren.\nWe have prepared a tutorial on how to register an account and enter the Science Circle open sim grid\, click here to view it. \n  \n 
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