The University of Chicago's "Demotic Dictionary," finally online after decades of work, sheds light on the written language of everyday Egyptians in the 7th century B.C.E.

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The Chicago Demotic Dictionary, so named because it was created by University of Chicago researchers, translates Demotic Egyptian, the tongue of common Egyptians from about 500 B.C. to A.D. 500.

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The series kicks off with the first Egyptian curator of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the author of Egypt’s first Ancient Egyptian Dictionary, Ahmed Kamal Pasha (1851-1923).

So in 1975, three years after finishing her dissertation on Egyptian grammar and joining the Oriental Institute faculty, Johnson began work on the Chicago Demotic Dictionary, a project that sought to ...

The series kicks off with the first Egyptian curator of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the author of Egypt’s first Ancient Egyptian Dictionary, Ahmed Kamal Pasha (1851-1923).