Talking Pyramids: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids

The Brooklyn Museum is back in the lab today to follow on from where they left off on Tuesday.
Shelly is once again live blogging the event on Twitter, and posting photos, which can be viewed here on this post.
Just like on Tuesday, you can send your questions and comments to Shelly live using your Twitter [...]

The Brooklyn Museum returns to the lab today to re-wrap the “Anonymous Man” to prepare him for display in the Mummy Chamber exhibition.
Shelly Bernstein, the Brooklyn Museum’s Chief of Technology, is live blogging the event again on Twitter, coming to you direct from the lab. She’ll be giving us a running commentary on [...]

Another 360 degree panoramic view of the Giza Plateau has been made and put online, this one is by Jordi at ViewAt.
They are best viewed in full screen mode so look for the small icon in the lower right corner to launch into full screen. You can zoom in and out using [...]

Mark Vygus has updated his excellent dictionary. The dictionary, which can be downloaded (8.3 mb) for free, is a very usefull addition to any linguist’s tool box. Having such a dictionary in digital format enables one to quickly and easily search the entire repository of over 30 500 words.
The format [...]

Serge Rosmorduc has announced that a new version of his free hieroglyphic editor, JSesh has been released.
JSesh is an excellent tool to help you study the ancient Egyptian language.
You can visit the JSesh website to read all about it and download the latest verison. This is what Serge wrote [...]

This probably seems a bit like a commercial for the iPhone but when I saw this I couldn’t resist posting it here. It’s an iPhone app that would be really useful for anyone studying the ancient Egyptian language.
From the developer’s website:
English and French dictionary, Aaou is a hieroglyph dictionary, which currently contains [...]

Serge Rosmorduc wrote in a message to the AEL discussion group that a new version of JSesh has been released. Here is his message:
Dear all,
You can now download release 2.11.5 of my free hieroglyphic processor JSesh at http://jsesh.qenherkhopeshef.org/en/node/1366
New in this version :
JSesh version 2.11.5 brings a number of new features :
* S. Thomas has [...]