Literary Sources for Ancient Egyptian History

Ancient Egyptian herbal wines.

Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed into pottery jars from the beginning of advanced ancient Egyptian culture, ca. 3150 B.C., and continuing for millennia have revealed that a range of natural products--specifically, herbs and tree resins--were dispensed by grape wine. These findings provide chemical evidence for ancient Egyptian organic medicinal remedies, previously only ambiguousl...

Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Tombs

From the pyramids of Giza to the tombs of Thebes (modern Luxor), ancient Egypt’s glorious history has produced remarkable architecture. Sadly, the nearly four million yearly tourists have taken a heavy toll on many of these ancient structures. Of particular concern are many of the tombs located opposite to Luxor on the western bank of the Nile. Digital reconstruction of these tombs has the pote...

Ancient Egyptian medicine

For the main part of her work, the translation of the Latin text into German, Lieberknecht has used the Valgrisius edition (Venice 1561) which incorporates a commentary of Mondinus (1275-1326) and an interpretation of Sylvius (Jacques Dubois, 1478-1555). In cases of uncertainty she compares this edition with the Venice and Padua (?) incunabula of 1471, a selection of eleven manuscripts and comm...

Comparative Literary History

Text-image Coupling for Editing Literary Sources

Users need more sophisticated tools to handle the growing number of image-based documents available in databases. In this paper, we present a system devoted to the editing and browsing of complex literary hypermedia including original manuscript documents and other handwritten sources. Editing capabilities allow the user to transcribe manuscript images in an interactive way and to encode the re...