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D.D. Guttenplan of New York Times covers an article about an ancient Egypt virtual environment created by the digital humanists of Harvard University's Berkman Center of Internet and Society.This virtual tour is called "Giza 3D" where a person can see real life places such as the waves by Ancient Egypt's harbor, funeral rites, and even pyramid burial shafts that have not been seen by humans for over 100 years. The entire tour can even be seen in 3D at home with 3D glasses. Guttenplan compares this project to the works of other digital humanists. He brings up another excellent project titled Hypercities Egypt, created at the University of California, which archives tweets from Cairo. Such an archive allows people to see what is posted in real time and track back tweets back to the start of the protests in Tahrir Square.

The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities announces 5 institutes that will receive government grants to further their research. Included are the University of Texas at Austin's HiPSTAS, the University of Maryland, College Park's Digital Humanities Data Curation, George Mason University's Another Week | Another Tool - A Digital Humanities Barnraising, Folger Shakespeare Library's Folger Shakespeare Library Summer Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities: "Early Modern Digital Agendas," and Arkansas State University's Humanities Heritage 3D Visualization: Theory and Practice.