Egypt
Los Angeles Times (Duke Helfand)
- Mummy Scan Database To Launch In The Summer
IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project Thanks to Dr Andrew Wade for letting me know that there is a project collating mummy scans from around the world. The IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project (impactdb.uwo.ca) at the University of Western...
- Oxford University Wants Help Decoding Egyptian Papyri
BBC News Oxford University is asking for help deciphering ancient Greek texts written on fragments of papyrus found in Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of images have gone on display on a website which encourages armchair archaeologists to help catalogue...
- Team Gets $800k For Papyrus Texts
The Duke Chronicle A faculty-led team has received an $814,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to launch a new online system for editing ancient Greek and Latin texts preserved on papyrus. The team is headed by Joshua Sosin, associate professor...
- Etana Core Texts - Full Listing
Ancient World Bloggers Group (Charles Ellwood Jones) Thanks very much to Chuck Jones for the above post, which lists every one of the 355 texts available on ETANA as a resource for Near Eastern studies (including Egypt). Here's a quick introduction...
- Mysteries Of Ancient Egyptian Papyri Revealed
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63063Thanks very much to Chris Townsend for this article from 14th February, which I missed:"Three BYU professors have uncovered mysteries in ancient Egyptian writings aided by new technology that allows people to see inscriptions...
Egypt
In the Lab: Technology reads the past
Los Angeles Times (Duke Helfand)
Four thousand years ago, a government bureaucrat in Mesopotamia jotted down a tally of slave laborers on a clay tablet.
The bureaucrat left behind the count in wedge-shaped symbols that proved hard to fully decipher with the naked eye.
Until now.
Researchers at USC's West Semitic Research Project have helped uncover its hidden narrative with the aid of lighting and imaging techniques that are credited with revolutionizing the study of ancient texts.
Over the last three decades, the USC project has produced thousands of crisp images of inscriptions and other artifacts from biblical Israel and other Near Eastern locales, making the pictures available to the public in an online archive, InscriptiFact.com. . . .
The database also features an Aramaic inscription on a sheet of papyrus written by a group of Jews in Egypt five centuries before the birth of Jesus. In the text -- whose image is so sharp it reveals the grain of the papyrus -- Jews petition distant Persian rulers for permission to rebuild a temple.
- Mummy Scan Database To Launch In The Summer
IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project Thanks to Dr Andrew Wade for letting me know that there is a project collating mummy scans from around the world. The IMPACT Radiological Mummy Database Project (impactdb.uwo.ca) at the University of Western...
- Oxford University Wants Help Decoding Egyptian Papyri
BBC News Oxford University is asking for help deciphering ancient Greek texts written on fragments of papyrus found in Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of images have gone on display on a website which encourages armchair archaeologists to help catalogue...
- Team Gets $800k For Papyrus Texts
The Duke Chronicle A faculty-led team has received an $814,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to launch a new online system for editing ancient Greek and Latin texts preserved on papyrus. The team is headed by Joshua Sosin, associate professor...
- Etana Core Texts - Full Listing
Ancient World Bloggers Group (Charles Ellwood Jones) Thanks very much to Chuck Jones for the above post, which lists every one of the 355 texts available on ETANA as a resource for Near Eastern studies (including Egypt). Here's a quick introduction...
- Mysteries Of Ancient Egyptian Papyri Revealed
http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63063Thanks very much to Chris Townsend for this article from 14th February, which I missed:"Three BYU professors have uncovered mysteries in ancient Egyptian writings aided by new technology that allows people to see inscriptions...