Talking Pyramids

Serge Rosmorduc has just announced on the AEL wires 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 and this new release brings the software up to version 3.0. Here is what Serge said: I have the pleasure [...]

Following on from Thursday’s post I’d like to focus a bit more on the Pyramid Texts found in Queen Behenu’s recently discovered burial chamber. Offering texts on the north wall of the Unas sarcophagus chamber. Photo by Helmut Satzinger. I’ve been investigating the particular way in which the Pyramid Texts are arranged in Behenu’s pyramid. [...]

The Pyramid Texts were first discovered in 1880 inside the Pyamid of Unas by Gaston Maspero. Unas was the first pyramid to be inscribed with the famous corpus of texts and of the inscribed pyramids, Unas is considered to contain the most complete form of the texts. Maspero published the texts from the pyramids of [...]

Pyramid Texts from the north wall A burial chamber containing a pink granite sarcophagus with a black basalt lid has been discovered at South Saqqara by a French archaeological mission. Although badly damaged, the walls are covered in texts which contain the name of the tomb’s owner, ‘Behenu’, thought to be the Queen of either [...]

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, [...]

Two photos today, both of a hypocephalus. Hypocephalus means “under the head” and is an apt name for these objects. Hypocephali by fmpgoh CC By NC ND 2.0 Mysterious and magical, the hypocephali are inscribed pieces of papyrus, sometimes mounted on cartonnage discs that were placed beneath the head of the mummy. Some of the [...]

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 [...]