Exclusive Archaeological Stock Photography: Old Ruins and Ancient Media Content Now Live at SitesandPhotos.com

Tel Aviv, Israel – March 29, 2007 – Sites & Photos rolls-out SitesandPhotos.com – the world's first dedicated, searchable and customizable online collection of archaeological photographs and video. With over 80,000 photographs of old ruins and other archaeology images combined with 1300 DV-quality videos covering more than 400 archaeological sites across the Mediterranean basin, SitesandPhotos.com stakes its claim to be the largest and fastest growing online archaeology stock photography stock photography media resource.

The concept is built around the needs of academics, publishers, and scholars - SitesandPhotos.com is a well-organized and expanding collection - the brainchild of archaeologist and photographer Samuel Magal. Magal's passion for Mediterranean archeology and expertise in capturing high quality images have been featured numerous times in authoritative text books and are referenced regularly at educational institutions across the world to teach and inform the next generation of archaeologists and historians.

Magal founded SitesandPhotos.com to be a one-stop-shop for archaeological research. Researchers are able to search the online catalogue and create a light box of preferred images (many with unique in-depth background information attached) The web site includes visual content from both well-known and rare archaeological sites, and an archive of articles and diagrams of many of the old ruins visited and documented.

With innovative pricing models including both commercial and academic subscriptions or simple one-time purchase business models, SitesandPhotos.com image bank allows its growing archaeological digital media content to be more accessible and more cost-effective, to its audience. SitesandPhotos.com offers a unique proposition to Academic / Educational institutions who can subscribe to the complete library, offering unlimited access to all media stores. Publishing houses can enjoy unique pricing plans dependent upon size, quality and media usage.

"Online archaeological research archaeological research suffered from a glut of low-quality, uncataloged media," noted Magal. "Simply put, we created SitesandPhotos.com to make life easier for researchers. By offering high-quality images and video supplemented by comprehensive background knowledge, all organized in a logical catalog, SitesandPhotos.com is an indispensable tool for universities, publishers, and researchers worldwide," he concluded.

About Sites and Photos

Sites and Photos is committed to building and distributing the most comprehensive documentation archive of archaeology sites, for all time periods, providing the highest quality digital media pertaining to archaeology. Please visit http://www.sitesandphotos.com to browse the collection, download reference catalogs, sign up for our newsletter or apply for an academic subscription.


This press release was submitted by Shlomit Gordon, Compucall Web Marketing, on behalf of Sites & Photos. For more information please contact:

Olivier Amar
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