The role of digital tools in relation to understanding Meroitic

Progress toward understanding the Meroitic script has been well underway since the foundational work of Francis Llewellyn Griffith, published in 1911.  A standardized digital encoding for both Cursive and Hieroglyphic Meroitic was proposed in 2009, and 122 characters for it

Cataloging Ethiopian Materials

The prospects for cataloging materials in Ge’ez, Amharic, Tigre, and Tigrinya have greatly improved since the introduction of a system font, Nyala, on Microsoft Windows beginning with the Vista operating system released in 2007.  In 2009, I was able to