This is an amazing app which brings the pyramids and surrounding tombs to life, but it may be expensive for the average user.
The walkthroughs of pyramids are great, but through no fault of the app developers, there isn't a lot to see inside, except for zooming through narrow corridors and arriving in empty chambers.
The eight or so surrounding tombs, though pretty small and for officials rather than pharoahs, have more content to look at, mostly on the walls, and the ability to see how many of the wall decorations (as well as the pyramids and sphinx) looked originally, is truly wonderful. I also liked the spoken introduction to each tomb, and the personal flavour of the comments, and I just wished it had been longer to give me a better feel for the person buried there.
More suggestions (not criticisms) - A page or two of background on these people, or the roles they had, would have been really interesting. I would also have loved to see recreations of how these people actually looked - and dressed - in life, because the wall drawings are so stylized. The "then" recreations of the pyramids and sphinx would also be much more impressive if they were full screen, rather than relatively small pictures, and I would love to be able to download some of the art, for use as full screen wallpaper etc.
There is a section allowing you to rotate various artifacts in 3D - this is very nice, but I wish there were some more interesting objects, as most of the items are plain little statuettes that don't really benefit from rotation. The two standout items are a gold funerary mask and full size funeral boat. I would have loved to see more gold jewelry and perhaps some of Tut's objects, like chariots. Again, that's a suggestion rather than a criticism, because I gather that 360 degree photography is pretty complex. However, I think it's overselling the app to say there are dozens of "exquisite" artifacts, when most are pretty unremarkable.
The app includes a very professionally produced and detailed history that I found very impressive. There is some serious reading here.
Now - without wishing in any way to be critical, you can get through everything in about an hour, or maybe two, bar the reading.
So if you want to just see the special effects like the 3D and "then" and "now" comparisons, you may be disappointed by how quickly you get through all of it. Speaking for myself, once I got a taste for what the app could do, I couldn't help wishing there was more of it.
However, if you have a genuine interest in ancient Egypt, you should find this app compelling.
To be absolutely clear, I think it is an amazing app, and I congratulate the designers and developers, whose affection for their subject shows clearly. I just wonder if the pricing is too high for the average user.
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