Egypt
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts)
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- Eloquent Peasant Blog - Word Of The Week
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- Uat Instructor Creates Cuneiform And Hieroglyphic Translator
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Egypt
Resource: Hieroglyphs on your iPhone
Heritage Key (Ann Wuyts)
Jean-François Dumon and Alamanga have developed 'Aaou', an application for iPhone and iPodTouch which allows a quick translation of hieroglyphs. The iPhone app over 10,000 words or symbols to - depending on your iPhone settings - French or English. the translation in French / English of more than 10200 words and symbols and offers the possiblity of transliteration. 'Aaou' also allows you access through an index, to the uni/bi/triliterals as well as to an aide memory on the common hieroglyphs. The Aaou Hieroglyph Dictionary is priced at 4.99 euro and - of course - available via the iTunes app store.
For those of you who speak French, a short video presentation of the application can be found on Dumon's homepage.
- Report On The Mummies’ Trip To The Hospital
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) With photos. Brooklyn Museum’s trip to the hospital with four of their mummies yesterday was an event not to be missed. Many of us all over the world were able to ‘tune in’ via popular social networks such as Flickr...
- Tt255 - Tomb Of Roy Updated On Osirisnet
OsirisNet (English) OisirsNet (French) Thanks very much to Thierry Benderitter for the news that the TT255 pages on OsirisNet has been updated by the addition of a pdf file containing all the hieroglyphic texts of the tomb, their translitteration, and...
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Times Online (Richard Morrison) What explains our fascination with hieroglyphs? In part, surely, it is their sheer expressive beauty. We in newspapers are always looking for more elegant typefaces to catch your eye and enhance our limping prose. But...
- Eloquent Peasant Blog - Word Of The Week
The Eloquent Peasant Margaret Maitland has updated her excellent blog with two articles which may be of interest: Egyptian word of the week (new slot in which Margaret takes one of her favourite ancient Egyptian words and discusses it):I’ve decided...
- Uat Instructor Creates Cuneiform And Hieroglyphic Translator
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