Egypt
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- 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...
- Conservation At The Temple Of Mut
Brooklyn Museum (John Steele) John Steele has updated the Brooklyn Museum blog with news from the Temple of Mut at Karnak. Here's an extract but see the above page for the full post, accompanied by some great photographs (Kat, there's a good one...
- Book Review: The Disappearance Of Writing Systems
Nature (Andrew Robinson) The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication Edited by John Baines, John Bennet and Stephen Houston Equinox: 2008. Here's an extract of the review: The book came out of the first major conference...
- Deciphering Hieroglyphs
Times Online (George Hart) Another new page has been added to the Times Online website, this time by George Hart (who was an absolute hit at the Bloomsbury Summer School in London this last summer). Egyptian hieroglyphs are visually the most appealing...
- Weekly Websites
Quseir al-Qadim Project http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Projects/default.asp?ProjectID=20This project focuses on the site of Quseir al-Qadim on the southern Egyptian Red Sea coast, and its surrounding landscape. The project is a collaboration between researchers...
Egypt
Tamil Brahmi script in Egypt
The Hindu
A broken storage jar with inscriptions in Tamil Brahmi script has been excavated at Quseir-al-Qadim, an ancient port with a Roman settlement on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. This Tamil Brahmi script has been dated to first century B.C. One expert described this as an “exciting discovery.”The same inscription is incised twice on the opposite sides of the jar. The inscription reads paanai oRi, that is, pot (suspended) in a rope net.
An archaeological team belonging to the University of Southampton in the U.K., comprising Prof. D. Peacock and Dr. L. Blue, who recently re-opened excavations at Quseir-al-Qadim in Egypt, discovered a fragmentary pottery vessel with inscriptions.
Dr. Roberta Tomber, a pottery specialist at the British Museum, London, identified the fragmentary vessel as a storage jar made in India.
Iravatham Mahadevan, a specialist in Tamil epigraphy, has confirmed that the inscription on the jar is in Tamil written in the Tamil Brahmi script of about first century B.C.
- 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...
- Conservation At The Temple Of Mut
Brooklyn Museum (John Steele) John Steele has updated the Brooklyn Museum blog with news from the Temple of Mut at Karnak. Here's an extract but see the above page for the full post, accompanied by some great photographs (Kat, there's a good one...
- Book Review: The Disappearance Of Writing Systems
Nature (Andrew Robinson) The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication Edited by John Baines, John Bennet and Stephen Houston Equinox: 2008. Here's an extract of the review: The book came out of the first major conference...
- Deciphering Hieroglyphs
Times Online (George Hart) Another new page has been added to the Times Online website, this time by George Hart (who was an absolute hit at the Bloomsbury Summer School in London this last summer). Egyptian hieroglyphs are visually the most appealing...
- Weekly Websites
Quseir al-Qadim Project http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Projects/default.asp?ProjectID=20This project focuses on the site of Quseir al-Qadim on the southern Egyptian Red Sea coast, and its surrounding landscape. The project is a collaboration between researchers...