EGPZ.COM

This EGPZ.COM website is about technical aspects of working with Ancient Egyptian with computer-based digital techniques. Material is particularly oriented at software and web site developers who support Egyptian and/or want to contribute to publically available techniques and standards. It is not intended as a tutorial on Hieroglyphs, nor a 'how-to' guide for Egyptologists and others working with Ancient Egyptian.

Nevertheless some material here is of more general interest. For instance the Unicode and Egyptian page is tracking progress of work to include elements of Ancient Egyptian in version 5.2 of the Unicode Standard and beyond. The EGPZ specifications resource page contains a unofficial standard for Hieroglyphs in the Unicode Private Zones.

During Summer 2009, all materials here are being updated to synchronize with Unicode 5.2 (publication expected in October 2009). Hieroglyphs and transliterations to use Unicode 5.2 where possible and appropriate.

Contributions are welcome, such as documentation on data and file formats that relate to the subject and sign lists that have been used over the last 150 years or so.

Hosting and management is by Saqqara Technology Ltd. (www.saqqara.org).

Active topics on EGPZ.COM

• Ancient Egyptian Transliteration in the Unicode Standard (see Unicode and Egyptian).
• Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Unicode Private Zone (see EGPZ specifications).
• Ancient Egyptian Word List in Transliteration, Unicode and Manuel de Codage (MdC, see EGPZ Word List Project).
• Improved specifications for Manuel de Codage (in preparation).
• UMdC, a well defined way of merging Unicode and MdC.
• File and data formats for Ancient Egyptian (in preparation).

 

THOTH, The Scribe of the Gods..

From The Gods of the Egyptians, Budge, E. A. Wallis., London 1904. Vol. I. p. 408.