Dying Trades

Posted by Kushana Torumekia at 9/12/2008 4:38 PM and is filed under Typewriters; Koine; New Testament Greek; Alphabets; Coptic; Egyptian; Egyptology; Greek; Hieroglyphs
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I'm including this for the phrase "hieroglyphic typewriter"  (I have to wonder if it was only the hieroglyphs that represented consonants):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/nyregion/12tytell.html?_r=2&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

(Six of the consonantal hieroglyphs survived as letters in Coptic.  The rest are just the Greek alphabet, honest.  (A bit squiggly, but Greek.))

-Kushana

 

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