The content on this interactive disk was created especially for this publication by the Institute for the Visualization of History, Inc. (VIZIN; http://www.vizin.org), under the general guidance of Shelley Wachsmann (the Meadows Professor of Biblical Archeology at Texas A&M University, and the author of Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant (Texas A&M University Press, 1998, which received the Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the Archaeology of Israel) and The Sea of Galilee Boat: An Extraordinary 2000-Year-Old Discovery (Texas A&M University Press, 2009, which won the Biblical Archeology Society’s award for best popular book).

VIZIN is a unique 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization using advanced computer graphics technologies for the documentation, study, teaching, and dissemination of information about cultural heritage. VIZIN comprises the longest-active team in the world engaged in creating innovative interactive educational, research, and museum-display packages using the most accurate, detailed, and precise historical re-creations that the evidence allows.