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Workshop on Egyptian Hieroglyphs
The Orange County Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE-OC) will present for the first time a workshop on the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs at the Heritage Park Library in Irvine. The workshop will be presented by Dr. Elizabeth Waraksa, whose impressive credentials include a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies (Egyptian Art... »
Rocks don't need to be backed up
An excerpt from a thought provoking article by Henry Newman, an industry consultant with 28 years experience in high-performance computing and storage. My wife and I were in New York’s Central Park last fall when we saw a nearly 4,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk that has been remarkably well preserved, with hieroglyphs that were clearly legible —... »
Book: The disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication
by John Baines (Editor), John Bennet (Editor), Stephen Houston (Editor) Probably more writing systems have disappeared than survived in the last five thousand years. While the invention and decipherment of writing systems have long been focuses of research, their eclipse or replacement have been little studied. This volume gathers papers from the first conference... »
