Coming Events :
October 23, 2007	Qumran Visualization Project Chief Architect and Designer Robert R. Cargill will present a paper entitled The UCLA Qumran Visualization Project: Reconstructing Ancient Qumran to the UCLA Alumni Club at the San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA.
November 14, 2007	Robert R. Cargill has accepted an invitation to present a virtual tour of the digitally reconstructed settlement at Qumran at the ASOR Plenary Session entitled, The Current State of Qumran Archaeology. The keynote speaker for the evening is Dr. Jodi Magness.
November 17, 2007	Robert R. Cargill will present a paper entitled The Archaeology of Qumran: The Digitally Reconstructed Settlement and a Proposed Occupation Model to the 'Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, and Archaeology' section at the American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.
November 18, 2007	Qumran Visualization Project Chief Architect and Designer Robert R. Cargill will present a paper entitled The Archaeology of Qumran: The Digitally Reconstructed Settlement and a Proposed Occupation Model to the 'Computer Assisted Research' section at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA.
November 19, 2007	UCLA alum and DePauw University Professor Dr. Russell Arnold will present a paper entitled 'And They Answered and Said': Reading Ritual Practice at Qumran to the 'Ritual in the Biblical World' section section at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in San Diego, CA.
December 3 , 2007	Qumran Visualization Project Director, William M. Schniedewind, will present a lecture at the San Diego Natural History Museum entitled, Interpreting the "Word of God" in the Dead Sea Scrolls as a part of the museum's Distinguished Lecture Series.
News:
July 15, 2007	Archaeologica News mp3 Broadcast
July 13, 2007	Warriors May Have Occupied Dead Sea Scrolls Site (Fox News)
July 8, 2007	Trailer #2 for "Ancient Qumran: A VIrtual Reality Tour now available on YouTube.
July 4, 2007	Trailer #1 for "Ancient Qumran: A VIrtual Reality Tour now available on YouTube.
June 29, 2007	The Virtual Qumran Model was launched on June 29, 2007 at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Two videos are featured in the "Hall of Scrolls," while Robert R. Cargill's featured film, "Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour" is presented every half hour in the museum's Kaplan Theater.
June 20, 2007	Qumran Archaeological Ruins Studied (Imedinews.com)
June 20, 2007	Ancient Qumran Comes Alive (UCLA Magazine)
June 19, 2007	Virtual Qumran Sheds New Light On Dead Sea Scrolls Discovery Site (PhysOrg.com)
June 15, 2007	Armchair Archeologists Can Explore Qumran Virtually (JewishJournal.com)

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