We'd love to include your articles and photos! This data will be used to help research and conserve the monuments.Maeshowe is shown at the winter solstice, when the setting sun shines directly down the monument’s entrance tunnel to illuminate its central chamber. Historic Scotland has released a new virtual tour of Maeshowe chambered tomb at Orkney. Feature photo courtesy of flickr creative commons: Want to share your Journeys to Scotland? Now, people on the other side of the world can use this new tour to get a better understanding of the ancient and magical history Scotland has on offer.The Deputy First Minister also announced that the Scottish Ten team will shortly begin scanning the Eastern Qing Tombs, the final resting place of some of China’s best-known emperors, following the Chinese Government’s agreement to incorporate the site into the Scottish Ten project. Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon unveiled the tour, which features 5,000-year-old Maeshowe at Winter Solstice. has been created using 3D laser-scanning data collected to aid with the conservation and interpretation of the site through the Scottish Ten project - a unique collaboration between Historic Scotland, Glasgow School of Art and CyArk to document Scotland's five UNESCO World Heritage Sites and five international sites using cutting-edge digital technologies.
Learn more about the history of Neolithic Orkney. (www.theorcadianphotos.co.uk) The new Maeshowe Visitor Centre in Stenness opened today. Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon unveiled a new virtual tour of the 5,000-year-old chambered tomb at Maeshowe at a special reception in Kirkwall on Tuesday. The gently sloping passage into the tomb is carefully aligned so that at sunset during the three weeks before and after the Winter Solstice - the shortest day of the year on December 21st - the light of the setting sun shines straight down it and illuminates the rear wall and central chamber. All rights reserved. The virtual tour of Maeshowe has been created using 3D laser-scanning data collected to aid with the conservation and interpretation of the site through the Scottish Ten project – a unique collaboration between Historic Scotland, Glasgow School of Art and CyArk to document Scotland’s five UNESCO World Heritage Site s and five international sites using cutting-edge digital technologies.
Historic Environment Scotland has partnered with the Glasgow School of Art to create an app that lets users take a virtual tour of Maeshowe, a massive chamber tomb, older than Stonehenge, and central to the Orkney archaeological complex. The accuracy of the recording has produced clear images of the Viking inscriptions carved inside the wall in the mid-12th century. It has long been an important stop on the Orkney tourist trail and it was vitally important to be able to … Orkney is world-famous for its spectacular Neolithic archaeology, and now visitors from all over the globe will be able to explore one of its most enigmatic monuments, after a new virtual tour of Maeshowe chambered tomb went live today (29 August).. Project partners. If you continue to use this site we’ll assume you’re happy to receive all cookies. For all the latest Scottish archaeology news and Scottish archaeology events, see each issue of We use cookies to improve your experience of this website by remembering your usage preferences, collecting statistics, and targeting relevant content. The tour then returns to the exterior of the tomb to show how it now appears as a grassy mound in the middle of a field before showing an intersection to demonstrate how it was constructed. In addition to the tomb, images of the The recording of the other four Scottish World Heritage Sites – New Lanark, St Kilda, the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh and the Antonine Wall – is ongoing. Explore the historic cairn in 3D, discover Norse graffiti from the 1100s and see how the entrance passage to Maeshowe is perfectly aligned with the setting of the midwinter sun. Historic Scotland has announced the release of a new virtual tour of Maeshowe chambered tomb at Orkney, one of Scotland's finest Neolithic monuments. With scanning due to begin at the Eastern Qing Tombs later this year, the Scottish Ten team, in 2013, will complete their recording of Edinburgh and begin onsite at the Antonine Wall. The Deputy First Minister also announced that the Scottish Ten team will begin scanning the Eastern Qing Tombs, the final resting place of some of China's best-known emperors – visited by the First Minister Alex Salmond last December – following the Chinese Government’s agreement to incorporate the site into the Scottish Ten project.
Covering every inch of the inner rooms of the tomb, the animation also tours the outside of the mound and reveals how it was constructed in a detailed cut through.‘Maeshowe has fascinated people for millennia with its incredible structure, having been built even before Egypt’s great pyramids,’ Nicola Sturgeon said. Ms Sturgeon said: 'Maeshowe has fascinated people for millennia with its incredible structure, having been built even before Egypt's great pyramids.