GRACIA, CARLOS / ORTIZ, JONATAN
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 such as Greek and Latin. Notwithstanding this, the particularities of theancient Egyptian texts, not the last the complexity of its writingsystem, with its three scripts (hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic)have forced the researchers to face different problems then look forother solutions.
Digital work in the field has focused oncollecting, managing and analysing ancient Egyptian texts. ThisHandbook of Digital Egyptology: Texts intends to be a showcase of this activity by presenting to the reader some of the most advancedtechnological approaches and projects nowadays covering the subfieldsof digital formatting and encoding, annotation, network analysis,lexicography, coptic and hieratic OCR, and hieroglyphic signsdatabases.
