clear the logs RECOVERING THE PAST: Digital Reconstruction of the TOMB OF PERNEB at THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Constructed around 2380 – 2350 B.C., the partly ruined tomb of Perneb was purchased by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1913, since its 1917 installation in a grand gallery designed by Richard Morris Hunt, it has allowed museum visitors to experience an Egyptian Old Kingdom tomb chapel where the relatives and friends of Perneb made offerings and preformed the rituals that ensured him eternal life. The only Old Kingdom tomb chapel in any museum that retains so much of its surrounding architecture, the tomb of Perneb as displayed at the museum is still a fragment of its original structure. The Metropolitan Museum commissioned Ghiora aharoni Design Studio to create a digital reconstruction of the tomb for a film and web site. As revealed in Ghiora Aharoni's cutting edge digital reconstruction, the tomb stone structure returns to Egypt where it was nestled in a cemetery next to the “step” pyramid of King Djoser in Saqqara, and viewers can navigate the narrow lanes and intimate interiors of the tomb structure much as the relatives and friends of Perneb did 4,000 years ago.