Scribes at work

This video shows Professor Theo van den Hout, Editor of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary, writing a Hittite letter in cuneiform, and W. Raymond Johnson, Field Director of the Oriental Institute's Epigraphic Survey, writing passages from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. They use rough approximations of the ancient writing tools.

This video was produced by Tiffany Salone of the Chicago Media Initiatives Group for the Oriental Institute Museum special exhibit "Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East" which runs from September 28, 2010 through March 6, 2011.

[ranunculus]

I like how these videos are music free. Feels scholarly as it ought

[luckysocutegianna]

How long would it take to write this sentence in hieroglyphics?

[RamessesIX]

Prof. Johnson (Epigraphic Survey) here uses a brush to render glyphs in "linear" style. Many of the really interesting examples of the Book of the Dead also utilize "semi-cursive" style, evidently (to me) written with a carved rush that must have behaved rather like a Zig or Itoya felt calligraphy marker. Taking up the challenge by Dr. Fischer to explore semi-cursive, please let me ask that if any others are doing so, please consider comparing notes, as I have been investigating it for decades.

[RAZR_Channel]

? Anyone know what kind of brush he is using to write on what appears to be papyrus? I am trying to learn how to write on papyrus and don't have a clue? Thanks in advance

[rogerwilco]

What is most noticeable to me, is how slow it is.

[arkhie]

It's a great value that the antiquity of culture has been preserved over time, be it material or non material remains. 🙂

[moussapolytropos]

Do we know what the brush was made of?

[claudiasaini]

I want an asmr about this whole procedure.

[Ikchen]

Just out of curiosity (since I'm studying Egyptology and IndoGermanic languages) - which interpretation do you base your pronunciation on? Afaik all we have left of the Hittites and their language is their archive = cueniform tablets, after the Hittite empire got annihilated by the so called "Sea People"?

[averongodoffire]

When folks limit the ability to practice this ancient art
“No let them cook.”

[bulletsfordinner]

There's no audio or is it just me?

[Beatriz-hrdr]

Como eu vim parar aqui? rs.
De todo modo, é impressionante.

[skjaoataafnan]

In which thing are you writing papyrus or in paper.

[skjaoataafnan]

Please can you make a video of how to make the ink you are using please make a video of this.

[LiaPema]

I am learning to speak Hittite, or more accurately Nesite. It is quite similar to German, English and other major European languages. I like Hittite. I am originally from Turkey, and believe that I originate from the Hittites and that I should learn my ancestor's language. Mek asmi lalan Nesli= translation= I like much the Nesite language. Memami ya hatrami Nesli= I speak and write Nesite.
Thanks for uploading.
Lia

[Zombieirl]

I was forced to watched this, my global studies teacher. :c

[DarkMoonDroid]

He showed what he used in the previous videos. Check their channel.

[AquaFurs]

Were the Egyptian hieroglyphs written sideways, as shown in this video?

[cameraobscura]

Watched a documentary on the Hittites on youtube, . as far as I can remember they brought themselves to an end by a civil war shortly after a successful war with Egypt

[klabumalami]

cant image if our world today still using Hieroglyphs or Cuneiform writing