Ancient Egyptian Technology
Hieroglyphs, Hieratic, Transliteration
Unicode, EGPZ, XML

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 the Unicode Standard. The EGPZ specifications resource page contains a unofficial standard for Hieroglyphs in the Unicode Private Zones.

**NEW** (27th March 2008) Work on providing information on the INSX File Format has begun. This is an open XML document format with support for Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode and MdC compatibility features.

(19th November 2007) The EGPZ Word List Project is now online with sample data. The word list has several interesting features and serves as an extended example of web site use of Egyptian hieroglyphs and transliteration in Unicode.

(19th November 2007) Egyptian Transliterations on www.egpz.com are all being upgraded to use Unicode 5.1 (currently in Beta for release expected March 2008).

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 (see EGPZ Word List Project).
  • MdC2008 - an improved specification for Manuel de Codage (in preparation).
  • 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.