During the last ten years the number of published inscriptions from the time before the 1st Dynasty has almost tripled. The main reason is the discovery and publication of the early inscriptions from Tomb U-j (ca. 3320 BC) at Umm el-Qacab/Abydos (Naqada IIIa2/Naqada IIIA1). The 525 inscriptions known at present and dating before the 1st Dynasty allow an insight into the origins of hieroglyphic writing — in respect to writing materials and literacy as well as concerning the spelling of words and the stock of signs. The distribution of inscriptions increased in course of time before the 1st Dynasty. For the reign of Nar-mer inscriptions from 17 sites are already attested. Due to circumstantial evidence, it can also be proved that there was a...
The rock art tableaux that form the large pictorial cycle at Nag el-Hamdulab, on the west bank of th...
The main goal of the research work is to present a survey on the Anatolian hieroglyphic script betwe...
The birth of the writing in the Nile valley is a problem abundantly dealt with. Nevertheless, it des...
The hieratic script has never been studied systematically regarding its peculiarities in abbreviatio...
L’objectif de cet article est de fournir une description sémiotiquement informée des fonctions et de...
In ancient Egypt writing appears closely linked to the art of the spoken word. Its designations and ...
Writing – of any type – is a highly complex system of visual communication, but it is by no means th...
Throughout history in Ancient Egypt, information has been passed on from one generation to another. ...
The ancient Egyptians at times employed a non-standard list of signs and phonetic values, and the re...
Identifying individual scribes on the basis of handwriting has proven to be more difficult than ofte...
This article offers a formalization of how signs form words in Ancient Egyptian writing, for either ...
This paper focuses on the reading of the short hieroglyphic inscription revealed after the recent re...
International audienceMeroitic was the main language of the kingdom of Kush, in ancient Sudan. Altho...
Encoding hieroglyphic texts is time-consuming. If a text already exists as hand-written transcriptio...
During surveys of the northern hinterland of the region of Elkab, in May of 2017 the Elkab Desert Su...
The rock art tableaux that form the large pictorial cycle at Nag el-Hamdulab, on the west bank of th...
The main goal of the research work is to present a survey on the Anatolian hieroglyphic script betwe...
The birth of the writing in the Nile valley is a problem abundantly dealt with. Nevertheless, it des...
The hieratic script has never been studied systematically regarding its peculiarities in abbreviatio...
L’objectif de cet article est de fournir une description sémiotiquement informée des fonctions et de...
In ancient Egypt writing appears closely linked to the art of the spoken word. Its designations and ...
Writing – of any type – is a highly complex system of visual communication, but it is by no means th...
Throughout history in Ancient Egypt, information has been passed on from one generation to another. ...
The ancient Egyptians at times employed a non-standard list of signs and phonetic values, and the re...
Identifying individual scribes on the basis of handwriting has proven to be more difficult than ofte...
This article offers a formalization of how signs form words in Ancient Egyptian writing, for either ...
This paper focuses on the reading of the short hieroglyphic inscription revealed after the recent re...
International audienceMeroitic was the main language of the kingdom of Kush, in ancient Sudan. Altho...
Encoding hieroglyphic texts is time-consuming. If a text already exists as hand-written transcriptio...
During surveys of the northern hinterland of the region of Elkab, in May of 2017 the Elkab Desert Su...
The rock art tableaux that form the large pictorial cycle at Nag el-Hamdulab, on the west bank of th...
The main goal of the research work is to present a survey on the Anatolian hieroglyphic script betwe...
The birth of the writing in the Nile valley is a problem abundantly dealt with. Nevertheless, it des...