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EGYPTOLOGICAL RESOURCES



	Multilingual index on Egyptian Treasures cd-roms
	Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus
	Hieroglyphica (hieroglyphic library of more than 6900 signs)
	Prosopographia Aegypti (online)
	Links to museums with Egyptological collections
	CCER list of egyptologists
	CCER list of egyptological institutions and museums
	CCER links to other sites
	The Temple of Abu Simbel
	Remarkable and bizarre notes about Egypt by early travellers
	Restoring Ancient Egyptian artifacts... by computer
	The Trumpet of Tutankhamun
	Coptic fonts
	Egyptian transliteration font
	Egyptian transliteration font for Mac

Restoring Ancient Egyptian artifacts... by computer

by Hans van den Berg.

With modern photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop and Paintshop Pro it is possible to perform restorations on ancient Egyptian artifacts without even touching them. It is done by retouching the artifact on photo, a "virtual restoration" so to speak. The aim of this method is to restore the artifact to more or less its original appearance as it would have appeared right after completion by the Egyptian craftsman, taking away the scars of past ages. Only artifacts are chosen whose restoration involves little or no speculation as to their original state.