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 usual on :
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November 11th, 2008 | Posted in News | No Comments
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) - Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III
The ENiM website
From the ENiM:
ENiM is the first French magazine digital Egyptology. It is the [...]
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November 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Interactive, News | No Comments
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. [...]
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October 12th, 2008 | Posted in Interactive, News | No Comments
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 for the long hiatus [...]
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September 14th, 2008 | Posted in Interactive, News | No Comments
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
* and above all, lots (really [...]
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September 11th, 2008 | Posted in News | No Comments
The following is a chronological listing of newly added or edited entries in ABZU database:
Epigraphica Anatolica: Zeitschrift für 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 Rücksicht auf den verletzten Stolz zweier hellenistischer Kleinpoleis (Nagidos und Arsinoe)
Drei kleinasiatische Inschriften [...]
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September 11th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments
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 story:
The material [...]
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August 28th, 2008 | Posted in News | No Comments