SunoikisisDC: Working with Egyptian texts

Speakers: Eliese-Sophia Lincke (Freie Universität Berlin), Franziska Naether (Leipzig) 

Sunoikisis Digital Classics session 3

This session introduces basic digital tools and instruments used to decipher and analyze Ancient Egyptian Texts. We begin with a thorough introduction to Ancient Egyptian languages and scripts, including Hieroglyphic, Demotic and Coptic. The main digital tool discussed is the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA), which recently received a major makeover, and to which new functionalities are added every year. Other topics covered include text alignment (with Ugarit), and the state of the art of Unicode for Egyptian scripts.

Follow live or later at: https://youtu.be/zelmcZmoa7E 

Further information, readings and exercise at: https://github.com/SunoikisisDC/SunoikisisDC-2024-2025/wiki/3-Egyptian-Texts