Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the AI and a possible scenario for the future of Egyptology (and higher education) | ||||
| مجلة كلية الآداب - جامعة القاهرة | ||||
| Volume 85, Issue 11, August 2025, Page 1-30 | ||||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jarts.2025.438062 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| ريناتا ج. تاتومير | ||||
| أستاذة دكتوراه - جامعة هايبريون في بوخارست، رومانيا | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The ancient Egyptians are the builders of the first civilization. Their megalithic monuments created up to five millennia ago and which endured until today still overwhelm us with their perfection and ingenuity due to the brilliant minds of the ancient Egyptian engineers and architects of those times who built them. To build these spectacular monuments, the ancient Egyptians used the symbolic language of hieroglyphs, an original, authentic ancient Egyptian product, unique in history and which could only be deciphered in the century 19th century CE, i.e. after almost five thousand years. This hieroglyphic language was used both for everyday speech and to express mathematical - algebraic and geometric - abstractions, necessary for precise calculations in construction, astronomy and everyday life. A question arises: if this hieroglyphic language were invented today, to what extent could it be used as a software programming language? Can Egyptian hieroglyphs be used in coding? Moreover, what implications could the use of Egyptian hieroglyphs and their language have in artificial intelligence? Because it is known that until now, AI has started to be used successfully in Egyptology: for example, for the easier understanding of the written texts on damaged artifacts and monuments; to the translation of the texts, to the most faithful reconstruction of the portraits of the personalities of this civilization, to the analysis of the mummies and the composition of the materials, in archaeology, as well as in other related applications that we will mention in the current paper. The possibility of introducing Egyptian hieroglyphs in programming languages paves the way for their use in other higher education disciplines. But not only that. This attempt can be duplicated using other languages of other ancient civilizations, languages that will already replace the classic European alphabet as a programming language. It is interesting to follow from this perspective the possible evolution of AI, both in Egyptology and at the level of higher education. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs; Egyptology; AI; coding; software; application *The author declare that their present paper was not published elsewhere | ||||
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