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Eternal Egypt is a nice and very thorough overview of Egypt’s history past and present. It’s a terrific site that has many decent qualities.. but the most important to us, of course, is the Flash-based timeline.

It’s a really good example of how a great deal of information can be put together and made to work. They’ve got a really long timeline list, and a way to sort through a few categories (artifacts, characters, places, etc). The timeline chugs along fairly poorly on my computer… but it does work. You can click on a title, have more information display, and even get more details. All very good ideas, although their interface is a little disjunctive, and Im pretty sure my computer hates having two or three different flash widgets up.

Visualization and rendering are VERY important. Even Edward Tufte thinks so.