TY - BOOK ID - 101117137 TI - Handbook of digital egyptology : texts AU - Gracia Zamacona, Carlos AU - Ortiz García, Jónatan PY - 2022 SN - 9788418979095 8418979097 PB - Alcala de Henares : Universidad de Alcalá, DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101117137 AB - In the last decades, numerous digital approaches have been applied toancient Egyptian materials. Archaeological items have long sincebenefited from the new digital technology methods and techniques.More recently, ancient Egyptian texts have been the object of saidapproaches, too, following the studies of other ancient languages suchas Greek and Latin. Notwithstanding this, the particularities of theancient Egyptian texts, not the last the complexity of its writing system,with its three scripts (hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic) have forced theresearchers to face different problems then look for other solutions.Digital work in the field has focused on collecting, managing andanalysing ancient Egyptian texts. This Handbook of Digital Egyptology:Texts intends to be a showcase of this activity by presenting to thereader some of the most advanced technological approaches andprojects nowadays covering the subfields of digital formatting andencoding, annotation, network analysis, lexicography, coptic and hieraticOCR, and hieroglyphic signs databases. -- site de l'éditeur. ER -