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Google offers virtual visits to Mexican
archaeological sites
Saturday August 18, 2012 03:11:37 PM,
EFE
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Mexico
City: Netizens will be able to take virtual strolls through 30 Mexican
archaeological sites using Google Mexico's Street View platform,
Mexican cultural authorities said.
The 360-degree virtual view of these archaeological sites, which
include Teotihuacan, Xochicalco, Monte Alban, Chichen Itza, Tulum,
Palenque, Tula and Paquime, allows them to be explored down to the
last corner.
This is the first time a gallery featuring such sites has been
uploaded onto Street View, and the purpose of the project is to
encourage cultural tourism, Mexico's National Anthropology and
History Institute, or INAH, said in a communique.
The project, dubbed Special Collections Street View, was presented
Thursday in Mexico City with the explanation that in the first
stage 30 sites will be on view, but by the end of the year Google
Mexico hopes to have 81 sites online.
The app will allow cybernauts to make virtual tours on the
Internet thanks to the panoramic photographs of each
archaeological site.
By means of the Google Earth and Maps platforms, users can travel
inside pre-Columbian cities and their surrounding areas.
In 2011 an alliance was established between INAH and Google Mexico
for the international display of the nation's cultural riches.
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