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The Database of Medieval Nubian Texts: A Digital Foundation for the Study of Medieval African Literate Culture
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The Database of Medieval Nubian Texts: A Digital Foundation for the Study of Medieval African Literate Culture

Introduction In the middle Nile Valley—the region extending from present-day Aswan in southern Egypt to northern Sudan—Christian Nubian kingdoms flourished…

So MiyagawaMay 15, 2026
Digital Humanities Initiatives at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina
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Digital Humanities Initiatives at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, inaugurated in Alexandria, Egypt in 2002, serves as a symbolic cultural institution reviving the spirit of the…

So MiyagawaJanuary 6, 2026
The Demotic Palaeographical Database Project: A Digital Repository of Ancient Egyptian Demotic Script and Text Corpora
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The Demotic Palaeographical Database Project: A Digital Repository of Ancient Egyptian Demotic Script and Text Corpora

In my previous discussion, I examined AKU-PAL, the palaeographical database for hieratic script among ancient Egyptian writing systems. This article…

So MiyagawaMay 30, 2025
Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Palaeography Database: AKU-PAL
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Ancient Egyptian Hieratic Palaeography Database: AKU-PAL

Ancient Egyptian civilization, which flourished in the Nile Valley and the Nile Delta, is widely known for its monumental hieroglyphs…

So MiyagawaMarch 11, 2025
Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD: The Persons and Names of Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom Database
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Digital Prosopography of Ancient Egyptian Society Using LOD: The Persons and Names of Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom Database

This is the English version of the Japanese article at Jimbun Jōhōgaku Geppō (『人文情報学月報』: Digital Humanities Monthly), 159 (1), titled…

So MiyagawaDecember 3, 2024
Read and Write Coptic on Your Smartphone: Interview with Mina Makar on Coptic Bible, Dictionary, Keyboard, and Agpeya Apps 
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Read and Write Coptic on Your Smartphone: Interview with Mina Makar on Coptic Bible, Dictionary, Keyboard, and Agpeya Apps 

Coptic is the last stage of the Egyptian language and is still used at Coptic Christian churches. Coptic uses the…

So MiyagawaMay 31, 2022
Making a Unicode Font for the Nubian Language Revitalization Movement
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Making a Unicode Font for the Nubian Language Revitalization Movement

This time, I (So Miyagawa) decided to interview Arbaab (Hatim Eujayl), who is making Sawarda Nubian, an Old Nubian script…

So MiyagawaApril 8, 2022
Digital Archiving & Curation – Report from a Session at a recent Digital Humanities Conference in Kyoto KUDH)
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Digital Archiving & Curation – Report from a Session at a recent Digital Humanities Conference in Kyoto KUDH)

By Franziska Naether (Leipzig/Stellenbosch) Franziska Naether (PD Dr. phil habil.) is an Egyptologist, museum curator, and digital humanist with a focus…

So MiyagawaFebruary 1, 2022
The multiple purposes of neural network for the recognition of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics complexity
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The multiple purposes of neural network for the recognition of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics complexity

This is a contribution by Andrea Barucci, Constanza Cucci, Massimiliano Franci, Marco Loschiavo and Fabrizio Argenti. For their short bios,…

So MiyagawaDecember 10, 2021
An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium
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An Introduction to Coptic Scriptorium

This week’s guest contribution was organized by our Editor for Northeast African Studies, So Miyagawa, and was written by Lance…

The Digital OrientalistOctober 12, 2021

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