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- Ancient Letter To Pharaoh Found
Discovery Channel (Rossella Lorenzi) With photograph. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed the most ancient written document ever found in the Holy City – a tiny fragment of a letter thought to be addressed to Akhenaten, the “heretic” pharaoh...
- Sisyphos Archaeological And Egyptological Search Engine
intute Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link. I hadn't come across the site before he pointed it out. Sisyphos Description Sisyphos is an Internet search engine providing access only to archaeological and Egyptological websites. Similarly to Intute,...
- 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...
- Oblique Refractions
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/769/cu4.htmA fascinating article in Al Ahram Weekly about an The Edward W Said Memorial Lecture was delivered on 1 November Said's 70th birthday) visiting professor David Damrosch, a professor of English and Comparative...
Egypt
UAT Instructor Creates Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Translator
Marketwire University of Advancing Technology (UAT) instructor and senior web developer Joe McCormack has completed work on a web-based application that translates English words into cuneiform script from the Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian and the hieroglyphic script of Egyptian. The tool may be seen at his website, http://www.virtualsecrets.com/.
The translator works by converting cuneiform and hieroglyphs, both used in the earliest forms of writing, into English words. For example, typing "I am a father" into the Ancient Egyptian translator yields hieroglyphs that roughly translate to "I am" and "father." The translator has been featured on several museum websites around the world and websites specializing in resources for the ancient world.
- Ancient Letter To Pharaoh Found
Discovery Channel (Rossella Lorenzi) With photograph. Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed the most ancient written document ever found in the Holy City – a tiny fragment of a letter thought to be addressed to Akhenaten, the “heretic” pharaoh...
- Sisyphos Archaeological And Egyptological Search Engine
intute Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link. I hadn't come across the site before he pointed it out. Sisyphos Description Sisyphos is an Internet search engine providing access only to archaeological and Egyptological websites. Similarly to Intute,...
- 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...
- Oblique Refractions
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/769/cu4.htmA fascinating article in Al Ahram Weekly about an The Edward W Said Memorial Lecture was delivered on 1 November Said's 70th birthday) visiting professor David Damrosch, a professor of English and Comparative...