The subject of the interdisciplinary project, which combines egyptological research with methods from computer philology, consists of the ancient Egyptian scripts called Hieratic and cursive hieroglyphic script, both having been used alongside monumental hieroglyphic script for over 3000 years. The inventory of signs taken from selected texts is systematically and digitally recorded with different…
The Horus Temple of Edfu, built between 237 and 57 BC, is considered the best preserved temple of Egyptian antiquity and the entire ancient world. The aim of the project is the edition of the inscriptions of the Ptolemaic temple of Edfu, beginning with the securing of the text basis, translation, supplementation with philological comments up to the publication of extensive materials from the areas…
The ancient Egyptian funerary texts are one of the most important and extensive literary areas of this culture. Three large collections of texts - roughly arranged according to time and place - define them: the pyramid texts of the Old Empire, the coffin texts of the Middle Empire and the Book of the Dead from the New Empire until the Roman times. In contrast to pyramid and coffin texts, the…
The Egyptian-Coptic language is the human language with the longest documented lifetime, clocking at 4,500 years prior to its extinction. Its vocabulary reflects the knowledge and worldviews of one of the formative cultures of the ancient world. In order to explore the linguistic and cultural evidence of this historical episteme, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and…