Talking Pyramids

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 : [...]

GlyphStudy Yahoo Group The Yahoo group GlyphStudy is running three new Middle Egyptian study groups, each starting in July. One of the groups will be using James Hoch’s Middle Egyptian Grammar, another will use James Allen’s Middle Egyptian: An introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, and the third group will be using How [...]

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 [...]

A scene from ‘The Chapter for Being Transformed into a Benu-bird’ from the papyrus of Ani. The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is an important document to understanding the religion of the ancient Egyptians. Based on the earlier Pyramid Texts which were inscribed on the walls of Old Kingdom pyramids, the Book of the [...]

A fragment of the scrolls Rossella Lorenzi from Discovery News: Some newly recovered papyrus fragments may finally help solve a century-old puzzle, shedding new light on ancient Egyptian history. Found stored between two sheets of glass in the basement of the Museo Egizio in Turin, the fragments belong to a 3,000-year-old unique document, known as [...]