Egypt
- Who Really Invented The Alphabet
Biblical Archaeological Review In a landmark article in the March/April 2010 issue of BAR, Orly Goldwasser, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explained how the very first alphabet, from which all other alphabets developed,...
- Hawass Denies Being Anti-semitic
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) It has come to my attention that questions about my views on Jewish heritage were raised during a recent interview I gave at the History Channel. It seems that several people had written in with comments suggesting that I am...
- New Book: The Oxford Handbook Of Papyrology
What's New In Papyrology By Roger Bagnall Description Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge...
- Will The Coptic Language Rise Again?
RantRave Some people agonise over endangered species. My pet cause is endangered languages. When I hear that a dialect is dying out or that young people aren’t passing on an obscure language, it saddens me. It is one thing to examine shards of pottery...
- More Re Semitic Text From Pyramid Of Unas
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070205-snake-spells.htmlA coherent summary of the discovery and decipherment of the Semitic passages inscribed on the subterranean walls of the pyramid of King Unas at Saqqara: "The Canaanite spells were...
Egypt
More re Semitic text from pyramid of Unas
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070129100250.htm
A spell written in hieroglyphs, but spelling out words in Semitic, is shown on this page, together with another summary of Professor Steiner's work. "Although written in Egyptian characters, the texts turned out to be composed in the Semitic language spoken by the Canaanites in the third millennium B.C.E., a very archaic form of the languages later known as Phoenician and Hebrew. The Canaanite priests of the ancient city of Byblos, in present-day Lebanon, provided these texts to the kings of Egypt."
A spell written in hieroglyphs, but spelling out words in Semitic, is shown on this page, together with another summary of Professor Steiner's work. "Although written in Egyptian characters, the texts turned out to be composed in the Semitic language spoken by the Canaanites in the third millennium B.C.E., a very archaic form of the languages later known as Phoenician and Hebrew. The Canaanite priests of the ancient city of Byblos, in present-day Lebanon, provided these texts to the kings of Egypt."
- Who Really Invented The Alphabet
Biblical Archaeological Review In a landmark article in the March/April 2010 issue of BAR, Orly Goldwasser, professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explained how the very first alphabet, from which all other alphabets developed,...
- Hawass Denies Being Anti-semitic
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) It has come to my attention that questions about my views on Jewish heritage were raised during a recent interview I gave at the History Channel. It seems that several people had written in with comments suggesting that I am...
- New Book: The Oxford Handbook Of Papyrology
What's New In Papyrology By Roger Bagnall Description Thousands of texts, written over a period of three thousand years on papyri and potsherds, in Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Hebrew, Persian, and other languages, have transformed our knowledge...
- Will The Coptic Language Rise Again?
RantRave Some people agonise over endangered species. My pet cause is endangered languages. When I hear that a dialect is dying out or that young people aren’t passing on an obscure language, it saddens me. It is one thing to examine shards of pottery...
- More Re Semitic Text From Pyramid Of Unas
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070205-snake-spells.htmlA coherent summary of the discovery and decipherment of the Semitic passages inscribed on the subterranean walls of the pyramid of King Unas at Saqqara: "The Canaanite spells were...