Egypt
- Anniversary Of The Discovery Of The Rosetta Stone
Philosophy of Science blog (David Petersen) Thanks very much to David for letting me know that I had missed the anniversary of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone on 19th July :-) Never mind. Have a look at David's blog above for a summary of its discovery...
- Hieroglyphs: Egypt Unlocked
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...
- Cleopatra - The Virtuous Scholar
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/feature/newsitem.shtml?cleopatra Much talked about prior to its publiclation, a new book has been launched entitled "Egyptology: The Missing Millennium. Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings" published by UCL Press. Dr Okasha...
- More On Medieval Arab Scholars Re Cleopatra
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html I posted about this on November 9th, when Radio Netherlands published an article on the subject at http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/10631355. Okasha el Daly's work identified...
- Medieval Arab Scholars On Cleopatra
http://www.rnw.nl/science/html/041108rf.html An article discussing Okasha El Daly's research into the work of medieval Arabic scholars, comparing their findings and views with those of modern Egyptologists. They take differing perspectives about...
Egypt
Rosetta Stone first translated by Mediaeval Arabic Scholars
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/770/he2.htm
"Since 1822 it had been thought that Champollion was the first person to break the hieroglyphic code, but a recent analysis made by an Egyptian Egyptologist based in London, Okasha El-Dali, on some mediaeval Arabic manuscripts buried among other works in libraries in Paris, Ireland, London, Istanbul and India has proved that Arabic scholars decoded hieroglyphs 1,000 year earlier. This is still more notable, as El-Dali points out, since at a time when mediaeval European scholars thought that the hieroglyphic signs were magical symbols, each representing a concept in itself, Arab scholars had grasped the fundamental principle that this writing represented sounds and ideas."
See more about Okasha el-Daly's widely discussed conclusions at the above URL on the Al Ahram website.
"Since 1822 it had been thought that Champollion was the first person to break the hieroglyphic code, but a recent analysis made by an Egyptian Egyptologist based in London, Okasha El-Dali, on some mediaeval Arabic manuscripts buried among other works in libraries in Paris, Ireland, London, Istanbul and India has proved that Arabic scholars decoded hieroglyphs 1,000 year earlier. This is still more notable, as El-Dali points out, since at a time when mediaeval European scholars thought that the hieroglyphic signs were magical symbols, each representing a concept in itself, Arab scholars had grasped the fundamental principle that this writing represented sounds and ideas."
See more about Okasha el-Daly's widely discussed conclusions at the above URL on the Al Ahram website.
- Anniversary Of The Discovery Of The Rosetta Stone
Philosophy of Science blog (David Petersen) Thanks very much to David for letting me know that I had missed the anniversary of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone on 19th July :-) Never mind. Have a look at David's blog above for a summary of its discovery...
- Hieroglyphs: Egypt Unlocked
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...
- Cleopatra - The Virtuous Scholar
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/feature/newsitem.shtml?cleopatra Much talked about prior to its publiclation, a new book has been launched entitled "Egyptology: The Missing Millennium. Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings" published by UCL Press. Dr Okasha...
- More On Medieval Arab Scholars Re Cleopatra
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html I posted about this on November 9th, when Radio Netherlands published an article on the subject at http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/10631355. Okasha el Daly's work identified...
- Medieval Arab Scholars On Cleopatra
http://www.rnw.nl/science/html/041108rf.html An article discussing Okasha El Daly's research into the work of medieval Arabic scholars, comparing their findings and views with those of modern Egyptologists. They take differing perspectives about...