Talking Pyramids

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 is: Hieroglyphs, Transliteration, English, [...]

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 in his announcement to [...]

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 more [...]

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 : [...]

Google has upgraded the Giza area in Google Earth and Google Maps with higher resolution imagery allowing us to see the pyramids in more detail. You can now pick out people on the plateau, the trial passages referred to by Petrie, and even individual toes of the Sphinx’s front paws. I look forward to more [...]

Learning ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs can be difficult. From having to remember the individual hieroglyphs, the vocabulary and grammatical structure of the sentences, to the transliteration techniques and Manual deCodage codes. It’s like having to learn several languages at the same time. Many people find it all too overwhelming and give up not long after starting. [...]

View the weekly reviews in the Study Some of you have been keeping an eye on the “Recent Tweets” section on the right. This area displays posts imported from the micro-blogging service Twitter, where Bennu tweets his little heart away. He has become a lot more active lately so I just wanted to write a [...]