Anthropeum Game Asks Players to Place Met Museum Artifacts on a Map
Anthropeum turns the Met's collection of over 500,000 artifacts into a daily geography and history puzzle, scoring players on how close their era and location guesses come to the actual answers.
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A browser game called Anthropeum has launched, offering 10 daily questions that ask players to guess where and when artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art were made. Players click a world map and a time line, using up to three hints per day. Scores are based on how close the guesses are.
Anthropeum draws on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of more than 500,000 artifacts. Each day the game serves 10 questions, showing a photo of an object and asking the player to click a point on a world map and a position on a time line.
Players who are stuck can use up to three hints per day, choosing between a Time Hint for the era and a Place Hint for the location. One example in the review: a gold ornament turned out to be an 8th-century belt fitting from the Avars, a nomadic people who ranged across Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe from the 5th to 9th centuries.
The final score is graded out of 10,000 points, based on how close the guessed era and place are to the real answer for each artifact.
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