cuneiform on the web (USA Today 20020521)

From: Markus Scherer (markus.scherer@jtcsv.com)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 13:07:56 EDT


USA Today ran a story yesterday on efforts to get cuneiform tablets published on the web "in dictionary, photographic and 3-D forms":

http://www.usatoday.com/news/healthscience/science/anthro/2002-05-21-cuneiform.htm

It mentions an encoding effort (which I am sure was mentioned on this list). See URL below.

An inset provides URLs:

<USAToday>
The University of Birmingham Cuneiform Database Project (www.eee.bham.ac.uk/cuneiform) has a number of cuneiform images and explanations.

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (early-cuneiform .humnet.ucla.edu) details efforts to bring photos of the earliest cuneiform tablets, 120,000 in all, to the Web.

The Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding (www.jhu.edu/ice) describes efforts to codify how cuneiform symbols are translated into modern fonts.

Other efforts are under construction; some are useful only to working scholars. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology offers a helpful cuneiform
explanation site for teachers at www.upenn.edu/museum/
Games/cuneiform.html.
</USAToday>

markus



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