Orly Goldwasser

Orly Goldwasser is a Full Professor of Egyptology at the Hebrew University and Honorary Professor at the University of Göttingen.

Her research interests range from the origins of the alphabet to the relationship between ancient Egyptian classifiers and modern theories regarding world classification.

Egyptian classifiers as a mirror of Egyptian mind

Visit the ArchaeoMind Lab

https://archaeomind.huji.ac.il/

A digital collaborative reseach platform for classifier analysis

The invention of the Alphabet

BBC production- The Secret History of Writing.

Episode 1- From Pictures to Words

The hunt for the origin of writing reveals the link between ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the letters we use every day.

Link to promo: https://vimeo.com/326292244

BBC Four - The Secret History of Writing, Series 1, From Pictures to WordsRevealing the link between ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the letters we use every day.

Sociolinguistics
and cultural interference