I’ve just returned from the formal launch of the Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (www.megajordan.org) in Amman, Jordan. Since Farallon has been working on this project since 2007, the publicity and public announcement of MEGA was super gratifying. Plus, it’s the first project that I’ve worked on that had a member of a Royal Family (Jordan’s Princess Sumaya) gave the keynote address at the launch.

Below is a YouTube video (in Arabic) which shows the rollout event. At time 0:07 you can see Princess Sumaya sitting in the front row.