[en] The talk is structured in four sections. (1) From Renaissance Copies to Decipherment – How Egyptian hieroglyphs were copied and transmitted before modern Egyptology; (2) Casting the Script in Metal – Printing hieroglyphs: The creation and evolution of three typographic founts; (3) From Sign-Lists to Digital Encoding – The problem of representing hieroglyphs in the age of computers; (4) Egyptian Hieroglyphs in Unicode – From 2006 to the latest developments
Research Center/Unit :
Mondes anciens - ULiège
Disciplines :
Classical & oriental studies Computer science
Author, co-author :
Polis, Stéphane ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences de l'antiquité > Egyptologie
Language :
English
Title :
Egyptian Hieroglyphs – From Lithography to Unicode: Modern Standardization of an Ancient Script
