Talking Pyramids

The Egypt Exploration Society has posted a series of videos from the lecture ‘One of Our Cities is Missing!’ On 25 June 2011 the EES hosted a day of lectures focussing on ‘Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids’. Speakers included Drs Jaromir Krejci, Richard Bussman, Joanne Rowland and David Jeffreys. Dr Jeffreys, Director of [...]

* Bastet * – by Pareeerica CC by NC ND 2.0 It was back in January 2008 that I began Talking Pyramids and I’ve enjoyed running the blog over that time. Thinking about the future and areas to improve upon, I have been reflecting on how the blog has grown during it’s relatively short life. [...]

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 [...]

Serj Rosmorduc has updated his hieroglyphic software JSesh to eradicate some bugs, improve usability, update fonts and call for volunteers to help develop the glyph description tool. Here is his email to the Ancient Egyptian Language group: Dear all, Version 2.8.1 of JSesh, my free hieroglyphic text editor, is available. It can be found as [...]

As reported on Ancient World Bloggers Group (AWBG) a new open access Egyptological Journal has been launched by the Institut d’Egyptologie François Daumas – UMR 5140 – Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes » (Cnrs) – niversité Paul Valéry – Montpellier III The ENiM website From the ENiM: ENiM is the first French magazine digital Egyptology. It [...]

The digitally restored White Chapel in GoogleEarth Listed in the items recently added to ABZU, is ‘Digital Karnak’, the latest addition to the growing number of archeological sites being digitally recreated online to provide wider accessibility. The Digital Karnak Project, built by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is no small website. There [...]

Hierowords Luca has announced an update to Hierowords, a free to download program that allows you to chose among 810 hieroglyphs of the Gardiner’s list and among 6717 hieroglyphs of the extended library from the CCER and arrange them in words. In an email to the GlyphStudy group Luca wrote: Dear all, I am sorry [...]