I prefer these Hieroglyphic interpreters.
Posted on 07/20/2020 3:02:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
I didn’t know that there was a great deal of Egyptian writing that hadn’t been translated yet.
I prefer these Hieroglyphic interpreters.
Cuneiform was so popular for 3000 years because it could be used for any language (unlike hieroglyphs; the el-Amarna diplomatic archive was excavated in Egypt and found to be a great pile of multilingual cuneiform tablets), so probably an algorithm could be built to *pronounce* cuneiform, but translation, not so much.
It hung up on the drawing of the bird. I redrew the missing parts four times, and the program couldn’t figure it out. So I bagged it and quit.
:^)
Dr. Bob Brier, a senior research fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of New York’s Long Island University, returned to the Toledo Museum of Art on Thursday, March 29. He gave a free lecture on the 3000-year obsession with ancient Egypt in the Peristyle as part of the Museum’s Masters Series. This event coincided with the exhibition, The Mummies: From Egypt to Toledo.
Masters Series Lecture: Bob Brier
I didn’t finish Latin, Latin finished me! ;^)
Painful. I still have to try it. I’m hoping because I work with a pen and tablet, which is easier than a mouse.
I should just jump into the “play” section and skip “learn”. :^)
There may be, although I didn't see that in the article. The Chicago House started photographing all the existing inscriptions in 1924 (it sez here; btw, the construction of the Aswan High Dam has contributed the most to the sheer destruction of Egyptian monuments due to rising water tables and pushing up salts and that kind of thing), so that they get recorded before they cease to be readable. Perhaps there are a good many which haven't been translated yet. The collection of photos of structures and monuments dates back to the late 19th century.
I can’t seem to find the Egyptian Hieroglyphics character set for my keyboard in Windows 10...................maybe Apple Mac has one...............
So one day U could buy a watch that translates something like”
“For a good time, contact Nefertiti at the sacred hall”
I know they have already found grafiti about Hashepsut and her lover in some burial caverns. Can’t post here.
That one is pretty neat -- shows Hatshepsut doin' her architect, lover, and father of her child, and the vintage graffito is in an excavated tunnel under her lovely temple the Egyptians (and foreign cash) reconstructed over the past 20years or so. I'm sure no one will be allowed access to the tunnel. The chamber is small, and I think the drawing is on the ceiling. Kara Cooney visited the chamber and showed the graffito in a documentary about Hatshepsut. Zahi "Zowie" Hawass was in it too (the documentary, not the chamber).
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