Developing a digital color code pattern based on traditional, hand drawn examples

When we look at ancient Egyptian monuments, color is to be found everywhere. Documenting either tombs, temples or the smallest painted graffito, we must provide a reasonable solution for recording the painted remains of the surface.

The "Imiseba method" - Documenting the late Twentieth Dynasty wall paintings in Theban Tomb 65

To appreciate some of the attributes digitalEPIGRAPHY represents at its core, we would like to introduce a one of a kind epigraphic project focusing on the facsimile representation of the wall paintings in TT 65.

Late antique Hagr Edfu - Area 2b, Tomb D

In 2007, a British Museum expedition began investigating the late antique activity at Hagr Edfu, with a focus on surveying, conserving, and documenting the rock-cut tombs of Areas 1 and 2, including Tomb D of Area 2b. Project description

Das Grab des Paenkhemenu (TT 68) und die Anlage TT 227

Das Grab des Paenkhemenu (TT 68) und die Anlage TT 227 by Karl-Joachim Seyfried is part of a series of publications devoted to the Theban tombs of Ramesside officials produced by the Egyptological Institute of the Heidelberg University.

Eva Hofmann – Der Vorhof der Privatgräber – nur ein sakraler Ort? Die Anlagen von TT 157 des Nebwenenef und TT 183 des Nebsumenu

In recent years, the Heidelberg University’s Ramesside Tomb Project has been studying the motifs behind the decoration of the forecourts of two Ramesside tombs, TT 157 and TT 183.

The Main Chapel at the Amarna Workmen’s Village and its wall paintings

In the 1980s, the Egypt Exploration Society's expedition to Amarna discovered a well-preserved private chapel at the Workmen's Village and the largest that had been built there.

Relief fragments from the valley temple of the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur

The Free University Berlin, in cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute Cairo (DAI), has been exploring the royal necropolis of Dahshur since 2000.

Rishi Coffin fragments from the Western Cemetery at Giza

The Harvard University – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Expedition at the Old Kingdom site of Giza has uncovered significant material from later periods of Ancient Egyptian history, including fragments of a “rishi” type coffin now preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Color coded drawing of a TT 179 fragment from the "Abydos pilgrimage” collection

Drawing detail with the Amun bark's egis from the facsimile documentation carried out in Theban Tomb 65

Wooden funerary mask from TT 65, represented on mylar using pencil

Color coded greyscale drawing detail from TT 179 showing part of a large pile of offerings

Nebamun's pet dog appearing underneath his chair in TT 179, color-coded greyscale representation

Faces created by using different digital documentation techniques: from the Chicago House method to Roman fresco texturing

Inking a 15 meter long life-size facsimile drawing from TT 65, the Theban tomb of Imiseba