How the Thoth Sign List helps digitize ancient Egyptian script
Explore the evolution of Egyptology's most essential tools. This lecture by Jorke Grotenhuis traces the history of hieroglyphic sign lists and examines the technical journey toward expanding the Unicode standard.
Since the decipherment of hieroglyphs, sign lists have served as fundamental resources for Egyptologists. In this lecture, Jorke Grotenhuis, a postdoctoral scholar from the University of California, Berkeley, provides a historical overview of these essential tools.
The presentation specifically focuses on the development of the Thoth Sign List and investigates the ongoing efforts toward a Unicode expansion, which aims to bring these ancient characters into the modern digital landscape.
Source: Jorke Grotenhuis | Hieroglyphic Sign Lists: The Thoth Sign List, Towards a Unicode Expansion
