Egypt
- Ongoing Work In The Faiyum - Week 2
Faiyum Dig Diaries We are currently continuing an intensive surface survey we began last year to understand the nature of the distribution of the archaeological record along the ancient lake edge. The landscape has undergone a lot of erosion since artefacts...
- How Wild Asses Became Donkeys Of The Pharaohs
New Scientist (Andy Choghlan) Thanks to Vincent Brown for pointing this out to me. New Scientist has a feature this week on the domestication of the donkey in Egypt. The article is a summary of research published in Proceedings of the National Academy...
- Article Preview: Review - The Rosetta Stone And The Rebirth Of Ancient Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/369n9u (newscientist.com) "The Stone's hieroglyphics were translated nearly two centuries ago, yet it has lost none of its mystique. Andrew Robinson looks for reasons why. What do a computer program for learning languages, a space...
- Neferhotep Tomb Receives Laser Treatment
http://tinyurl.com/r2gmg (photonics.com)"The conservation of an Egyptian tomb is a delicate, painstaking process. Dirt must be removed without damaging the fragile surfaces of the walls. In some cases, the grime is attached so firmly to the surface that...
- Dental Problems In Ancient Egypt
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18625061.900 You will either need to be a paying subscriber to see more of this New Scientist article, or pick up a copy of the print edition. I am a New Scientist subscriber, and it is a good article,...
Egypt
Digital hieroglyphs
http://tinyurl.com/qzj9b (alphagalileo.org)
News resource AlphaGalileo reports on an article about digitization of hieroglyphs in the latest edition of New Scientist: "The hieroglyphics that cover the columns and walls of Egyptian temples are in danger of washing away. Groundwater constantly seeps into the stone on which they are engraved, depositing a corrosive layer of salt on the surface as it evaporates. Yet despite the danger that the precious inscriptions could soon be lost, Egyptologists still trace them by hand – a laborious and time consuming process. . . . Now researchers working at Amun-Re are hoping a simple software tool developed by a team led by Élise Meyer of the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Strasbourg, France, will speed up the process. . . . To transcribe the engravings, the system first transforms photographs of the object taken from different angles into a flattened, head-on image of its surface, using a technique commonly used to turn aerial images into maps. The Egyptologist then uses an adapted version of the AutoCAD 3D drawing program to record the hieroglyphic."
See the above page for the full report.
For those of you who have access to the print edition of New Scientist, you'll find the original feature on page 28 of the latest edition.
For those of you who have access to the print edition of New Scientist, you'll find the original feature on page 28 of the latest edition.
http://www.newscientist.com/
- Ongoing Work In The Faiyum - Week 2
Faiyum Dig Diaries We are currently continuing an intensive surface survey we began last year to understand the nature of the distribution of the archaeological record along the ancient lake edge. The landscape has undergone a lot of erosion since artefacts...
- How Wild Asses Became Donkeys Of The Pharaohs
New Scientist (Andy Choghlan) Thanks to Vincent Brown for pointing this out to me. New Scientist has a feature this week on the domestication of the donkey in Egypt. The article is a summary of research published in Proceedings of the National Academy...
- Article Preview: Review - The Rosetta Stone And The Rebirth Of Ancient Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/369n9u (newscientist.com) "The Stone's hieroglyphics were translated nearly two centuries ago, yet it has lost none of its mystique. Andrew Robinson looks for reasons why. What do a computer program for learning languages, a space...
- Neferhotep Tomb Receives Laser Treatment
http://tinyurl.com/r2gmg (photonics.com)"The conservation of an Egyptian tomb is a delicate, painstaking process. Dirt must be removed without damaging the fragile surfaces of the walls. In some cases, the grime is attached so firmly to the surface that...
- Dental Problems In Ancient Egypt
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg18625061.900 You will either need to be a paying subscriber to see more of this New Scientist article, or pick up a copy of the print edition. I am a New Scientist subscriber, and it is a good article,...