Dear Reader, welcome to the brand new digitalEPIGRAPHY website!

Twenty years ago, when I started working in Egypt as an epigrapher, I wasn’t given too many guidelines regarding how to do the best job when documenting a painted tomb. Our Hungarian project leader wanted to have the most detailed, most faithful, most informative, and most complete documentation that was accessible to everyone,

Foreword to digitalEPIGRAPHY

This is just the latest of several forewords I have written for Krisztián Vértes and the Epigraphic Survey’s collaborative digital drawing manual Digital Epigraphy, but this one marks a gigantic technological leap forward.

Help evolving digitalEPIGRAPHY by being a part of it – How to submit an article, recommend a tool or provide a tutorial

It is time for us to reach out to our growing community to exchange views on digital documentation or documentation in general by utilizing the channels provided through the digitalEPIGRAPHY website.

A note on digitalEPIGRAPHY’s first birthday

I can’t believe that digitalEPIGRAPHY has already been around for a little over a year! Thinking back on the past 12 months, there are two conflicting feelings that come to mind...

The updated digitalEPIGRAPHY website – An Epigraphic Survey, Harvard University, and KU Leuven Collaboration

In the past two years, we've been expanding our scope, tirelessly adding new content upon what was available in the original Manual, opening new frontiers of interest, and taking the art of digital documentation in unexpected and exciting new directions.

digitalEPIGRAPHY's New Databases for Painted Hieroglyphs and Visual Documentation Are Here!

With our brand-new collections, digitalEPIGRAPHY would like to test the water to find out how we can support your research. What we've been working on for some time now is two visual databases, directly accessible and searchable through the website, implemented within the Complementary Material section.

In Memoriam: Krisztián Vértes (1976-2025), Part I - A First Reflection

Krisztián Vértes (1976–2025) was an accomplished artist and Egyptologist whose work transformed the practice of epigraphic documentation. Through his founding of digitalEPIGRAPHY and his contributions to major monuments in Abydos, Thebes, and Memphis, he leaves a lasting legacy of innovation, collaboration, and dedication to preserving Egypt’s cultural heritage.

The Mastabas of Qar and Idu G 7101 and 7102 - Digitally Revised and Enhanced Edition

The chapter by chapter web version of the book, The Mastabas of Qar and Idu, written by William Kelly Simpson in 1976, with contributions or drawings by Dows Dunham, Suzanne Chapman, Hansmartin Handrick, Alexander Floroff, Timothy Kendall, Nicholas Thayer, and Lynn Holden. Based upon the excavations and recording of George Andrew Reisner, Alan Rowe, William Stevenson Smith, and T. R. D. Greenlees. Museum of Fine Arts-Harvard University Expedition.

Drawing fragments from the Osiris Temple at Abydos with assisting cats

The digitalEPIGRAPHY website

A short note on digitalEPIGRAPHY's Second Anniversary

In Memoriam Gábor Schreiber (1974-2020)

Announcing the new Painted Hieroglyphs and Visual Documentation databases

Abydos cat Zetuna watching Krisztian tracing a Ramesside column drum

Painted Hieroglyphic text from TT 179, the early Eighteenth Dynasty tomb of Nebamun (detail)

On the Occasion of digitalEPIGRAPHY's Hundredth Instagram Post

In Memoriam – Krisztián Vértes (1976–2025)