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- Book Review: House Of Windows
New York Times (Anthony Julius) The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole. About 120 years ago, a cache of manuscripts, mostly fragments, was discovered in the storeroom of an old Cairo synagogue. Its members had deposited...
- Google Funding For Discovery Of Ancient Texts Online
AlphaGalileo A University of Southampton researcher is part of a team which has just secured funding from Google to make the classics and other ancient texts easy to discover and access online. Leif Isaksen at the University's School of Electronics...
- 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...
- Digitizing Documents
Science Daily Thanks to Kat for this. A useful idea, not specific to Egyptology but certainly relevant to it: Gennari set about photographing 2,500 documents, producing some 25,000 images in total, which would have been the equivalent of $15,000 worth...
- Online Exhibition: Diversity In The Desert
University of Michigan Papyrus Collection Thanks to the What's New in Papyrology blog for the link to the online exhibtion Diversity in the Desert, Daily Life in Greek and Roman Egypt. This is an excellently presented and informative website, linking...
Egypt
Piecing Together the Priceless 'Cairo Genizah'
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A well-known collection of historical texts, the Cairo Genizah is one of the most valuable sources of primary documents for medieval historians and religious scholars. The 350,000 fragments found in the Genizah include not only religious texts, but also social and commercial documents, dating from the 9th to 19th century. But the collection is scattered among 70 institutions worldwide, including libraries in Cambridge, Jerusalem, and New York City, and scholars are hampered by both the wide dispersal of the collection as well as their fragmentary condition.
Now researchers at Tel Aviv University are working to piece together this illuminating collection, bringing the pages of the texts back together for the first time in centuries. The results are being made available to scholars around the world through a website. Profs. Lior Wolf and Nachum Dershowitz of TAU's Blavatnik School of Computer Science have developed sophisticated software, based on facial recognition technology, that can identify digitized Genizah fragments thought to be a part of the same work and make editorial "joins."
- Book Review: House Of Windows
New York Times (Anthony Julius) The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole. About 120 years ago, a cache of manuscripts, mostly fragments, was discovered in the storeroom of an old Cairo synagogue. Its members had deposited...
- Google Funding For Discovery Of Ancient Texts Online
AlphaGalileo A University of Southampton researcher is part of a team which has just secured funding from Google to make the classics and other ancient texts easy to discover and access online. Leif Isaksen at the University's School of Electronics...
- 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...
- Digitizing Documents
Science Daily Thanks to Kat for this. A useful idea, not specific to Egyptology but certainly relevant to it: Gennari set about photographing 2,500 documents, producing some 25,000 images in total, which would have been the equivalent of $15,000 worth...
- Online Exhibition: Diversity In The Desert
University of Michigan Papyrus Collection Thanks to the What's New in Papyrology blog for the link to the online exhibtion Diversity in the Desert, Daily Life in Greek and Roman Egypt. This is an excellently presented and informative website, linking...