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Minecraft: Lockdown Lesson Recreates Ancient Island Tomb
Minecraft Lockdown: Lockdown lesson recreates the an ancient island tomb by George Herd BBC News
Take an archaeologist, a bored girl who is in coronavirus lockdown, and a common desire to explore tombs from the past.
The result? One of Wales the most important Bronze Age sites recreated - in the video game Minecraft.
It is Dr Ben Edwards from Wrexham and his daughter Bella who have made it happen.
They are sharing their models of Anglesey's Bryn Celli Ddu with classrooms all over the world.
The models can be loaded into the block-building universe of Minecraft, and explored to learn more about the site, Neolithic life and art.
The burial mound dates back an estimated 5,000 years, with its so-called "passage tomb" which's entrance is perfectly aligned with the sun at dawn on the summer solstice.
More recent excavations at the site, including those by the Manchester Metropolitan University archaeologist Dr Edwards himself, have revealed that the burial chamber was built as a "henge".
Like Stonehenge It was a ritual enclosure consisting of a bank around an inner ditch, which was enclosed in a circle of upright stones.
Dr Edwards has utilized the excavations, along with work with researchers from the University of Central Lancashire and Wales' historical environment service Cadw, to painstakingly recreate Bryn Celli Ddu in the video game.
It was later integrated into Minecraft's educational edition that is used across the world to teach chemistry classes and computer programming.
Now you can add a bit of ancient Welsh history to your collection.
From cromlechs to Cairns - Wales' ancient burial sites
History of the world: The Bryn Celli Ddu stone
Why did the prehistorics build so many hill forts?
BBC Radio 3: New Generation Thinkers' Seren Griffiths on Bryn Celli Ddu
"I was aware that Bella had access to the education version of Minecraft at her school in the area near Wrexham, and I had access to it at my college.
Dr. Edwards who worked on other computer models of Bryn Celli Ddu said that "So it was always on my mind for a while..."
"It was never a massive priority, but then you are in lockdown and it's Easter time and you're in home schooling.
"I just told Bella"Shall we take a crack at this?'"
The game is famous for its ability to design virtually any kind of world or playground of graphic blocks.
While it might be an entertainment, Dr Edwards took the method of Bryn Celli Ddu seriously, and employed actual maps of the world to recreate the landscape for Minecraft models.
It includes the tomb as it might have been constructed in the Bronze Age, and alongside it other burial mounds and pits discovered in the past few years.
The game also features rock art from Bryn Celli Ddu, as well as a model of an Neolithic home.
According to Dr. Edwards Dr Edwards, the most difficult thing to build was not the burial mounds, but the house.
He said, "It was planting trees."
Each of them had to be "planted" by Bella and her dad in order to be part of the Minecraft world.
"Bella was required to demonstrate to me how to do a variety of things, as she was more reliant on it than me," Dr Edwards confessed.
In the end, she approved of the final version, and said it was "very realistic".
"And she knows, because she used to go down to the excavations too," her father added.
Dr Ffion Reynolds, who is from Cadw Dr Ffion Reynolds, from Cadw exactly children such as Bella who could benefit from playing with the Minecraft model.
"We were looking for innovative ways to provide people with a digital experience of Bryn Celli Ddu," Dr. Reynolds, who would typically spend the summer months giving guided tours of the excavations to students from the area.
"This was an opportunity to maintain our relationship with these schools, and also provide them with a way to 'visit' the site electronically."
MINECRAFT SERVER LIST
Coronavirus restrictions mean Cadw's sites across Wales are closed to the public including Bryn Celli Ddu.
It also meant that for the first time in years that those who celebrate the solstice could not gather at the burial mound to witness the dawn phenomenon that occurred there.
"However it did let us to access an exclusive camera crew, and we have been able capture the sunrise in the area using 360-degree videography," Dr Reynolds added.
She said that Cadw hopes to make the video accessible in the near future and reopen the site to the public.
In the meantime anyone who has internet access at home or in school can now access Minecraft digitally - in safety.
The Bryn Celli Du Minecraft world is available for free download on Hwb, the Welsh Government's resource for teachers. Also available from the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage.
For those who want a more serious experience Dr. Andrews and his colleagues are working on an augmented reality app available for Apple devices, which will guide visitors around the real site - once it reopens.
New dig in prehistoric burial ground
15 June 2019
A new discovery in an ancient tomb
23 June 2017
Around the BBC
BBC Radio 3: New Generation Thinkers
Bryn Celli Ddu
Here's my website: https://minecraft-server-list.space/
Minecraft Lockdown: Lockdown lesson recreates the an ancient island tomb by George Herd BBC News
Take an archaeologist, a bored girl who is in coronavirus lockdown, and a common desire to explore tombs from the past.
The result? One of Wales the most important Bronze Age sites recreated - in the video game Minecraft.
It is Dr Ben Edwards from Wrexham and his daughter Bella who have made it happen.
They are sharing their models of Anglesey's Bryn Celli Ddu with classrooms all over the world.
The models can be loaded into the block-building universe of Minecraft, and explored to learn more about the site, Neolithic life and art.
The burial mound dates back an estimated 5,000 years, with its so-called "passage tomb" which's entrance is perfectly aligned with the sun at dawn on the summer solstice.
More recent excavations at the site, including those by the Manchester Metropolitan University archaeologist Dr Edwards himself, have revealed that the burial chamber was built as a "henge".
Like Stonehenge It was a ritual enclosure consisting of a bank around an inner ditch, which was enclosed in a circle of upright stones.
Dr Edwards has utilized the excavations, along with work with researchers from the University of Central Lancashire and Wales' historical environment service Cadw, to painstakingly recreate Bryn Celli Ddu in the video game.
It was later integrated into Minecraft's educational edition that is used across the world to teach chemistry classes and computer programming.
Now you can add a bit of ancient Welsh history to your collection.
From cromlechs to Cairns - Wales' ancient burial sites
History of the world: The Bryn Celli Ddu stone
Why did the prehistorics build so many hill forts?
BBC Radio 3: New Generation Thinkers' Seren Griffiths on Bryn Celli Ddu
"I was aware that Bella had access to the education version of Minecraft at her school in the area near Wrexham, and I had access to it at my college.
Dr. Edwards who worked on other computer models of Bryn Celli Ddu said that "So it was always on my mind for a while..."
"It was never a massive priority, but then you are in lockdown and it's Easter time and you're in home schooling.
"I just told Bella"Shall we take a crack at this?'"
The game is famous for its ability to design virtually any kind of world or playground of graphic blocks.
While it might be an entertainment, Dr Edwards took the method of Bryn Celli Ddu seriously, and employed actual maps of the world to recreate the landscape for Minecraft models.
It includes the tomb as it might have been constructed in the Bronze Age, and alongside it other burial mounds and pits discovered in the past few years.
The game also features rock art from Bryn Celli Ddu, as well as a model of an Neolithic home.
According to Dr. Edwards Dr Edwards, the most difficult thing to build was not the burial mounds, but the house.
He said, "It was planting trees."
Each of them had to be "planted" by Bella and her dad in order to be part of the Minecraft world.
"Bella was required to demonstrate to me how to do a variety of things, as she was more reliant on it than me," Dr Edwards confessed.
In the end, she approved of the final version, and said it was "very realistic".
"And she knows, because she used to go down to the excavations too," her father added.
Dr Ffion Reynolds, who is from Cadw Dr Ffion Reynolds, from Cadw exactly children such as Bella who could benefit from playing with the Minecraft model.
"We were looking for innovative ways to provide people with a digital experience of Bryn Celli Ddu," Dr. Reynolds, who would typically spend the summer months giving guided tours of the excavations to students from the area.
"This was an opportunity to maintain our relationship with these schools, and also provide them with a way to 'visit' the site electronically."
MINECRAFT SERVER LIST
Coronavirus restrictions mean Cadw's sites across Wales are closed to the public including Bryn Celli Ddu.
It also meant that for the first time in years that those who celebrate the solstice could not gather at the burial mound to witness the dawn phenomenon that occurred there.
"However it did let us to access an exclusive camera crew, and we have been able capture the sunrise in the area using 360-degree videography," Dr Reynolds added.
She said that Cadw hopes to make the video accessible in the near future and reopen the site to the public.
In the meantime anyone who has internet access at home or in school can now access Minecraft digitally - in safety.
The Bryn Celli Du Minecraft world is available for free download on Hwb, the Welsh Government's resource for teachers. Also available from the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage.
For those who want a more serious experience Dr. Andrews and his colleagues are working on an augmented reality app available for Apple devices, which will guide visitors around the real site - once it reopens.
New dig in prehistoric burial ground
15 June 2019
A new discovery in an ancient tomb
23 June 2017
Around the BBC
BBC Radio 3: New Generation Thinkers
Bryn Celli Ddu
Here's my website: https://minecraft-server-list.space/
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