According to both musEleanor and Adrianne Wortzel, The Electronic Chronicles constitutes "the fictional publication of an archaeological expedition taking place in the far future in which archaeologists discover, interpret and "reconstitute" our own present and past, and in the process reveal much about the evolution of our future". This expedition and its many implications are presented to us by musEleanor, Wortzel's alter-ego, a smart, somewhat-mysterious and highly confident cyberdiva who has the wit of Oscar Wilde and the cunning of Jean-Luc Picard.

Point Survey, an audience tracking service for World Wide Web sites, recently listed The Electronic Chronicles as the top 5% of all sites, and with little wonder. Wortzel's skilled use of hypertext and carefully selected graphics gives the user an engaging sense of journey, something rare with most sites today.

Wortzel says that The Electronic Chronicles evolve out of her long-term fascination with archaeology and the nature of the archaeologist's "detective work". She corresponds archaeological detecting with the philosophical detecting carried out by artists in their journeys through their work, i.e., finding the incremental paths to take in developing their ideas and expression. Although her only participation in an actual dig took place in a "faux" dig on Staten Island, New York in a class on practices of archaeology, she has traveled to the Yucatan, to Egypt, throughout the United States and to Western Europe to view historical and prehistoric sites.

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With an invitation to join converse with these two entities, how could I resist?

And Now: The World's First Published Cyberinterview: with musEleanor and Sphinx, by Mark Jones

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