Talking Pyramids

Serge Rosmorduc has released an update to his hieroglyphic text editor, JSesh as well as two new tutorials. In an email to the Ancient Egyptian Language list (AEL) Serge writes: Version 2.5beta of JSesh, my free Hieroglyphic text editor is available. It includes a few changes: * cartouches width works correctly * encapsulated postscript export [...]

The following is a chronological listing of newly added or edited entries in ABZU database: Epigraphica Anatolica: Zeitschrift Epigraphik und historische Geographie Anatoliens Patterns of looting in southern Iraq Excavations at Amheida in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis Ein neuer genealogischer Text aus Milet Ein diplomatischer Statthalter nimmt Ricksicht auf den verletzten Stolz zweier hellenistischer Kleinpoleis (Nagidos [...]

A new website was launched yesterday at a media conference organised by IBM in cooperation with Egypt’s Cultural and Natural Heritage, otherwise known as CULTNAT. The website is Egypt Memory, a place where visitors can purchase pictures, books and CDs relating to a wide variety of Egypt’s history and society. From the Daily News Egypt [...]

Scene from the mastaba of Mereruka OsirisNet has updated their excellent and informative website with the addition of the mastaba of Meryteti. The mastaba of Meryteti is located just north of the pyramid of Teti and is a part of the Mereruka mastaba complex. “The mastaba/chapel of Meryteti consists of five chambers, a burial shaft [...]

The Giza Archives have been updated with a range of new items. Here are some of them as listed on their front page: # See everything! Just click the ‘go’ button. # Download hundreds of free Giza books and articles. more… # Search images by content with MET (multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus). more… # 4,464 pages [...]

In another example of their great use of Social Networking, the Brooklyn Museum has reached out to the community to help them catalogue their collection now that it has gone online. Those creative minds at the Museum have decided to make a game of it called Tag!. “When Posse members login to play the game [...]

The Brooklyn Museum has been working hard over the past year to put their collection online and will launch it on their website early next week. Currently there are 5168 items already online and that number is increasing. Djed Pillar from the Brooklyn Museum Collection “We had three goals to accomplish in this round of [...]