Chicago Demotic Dictionary Published Online

Here's a story from The New York Times reporting that the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago has completed a forty-year project of compiling a dictionary of Demotic, the language and cursive script of the common people of Ancient Egypt. Demotic is one of the three languages inscribed on the Rosetta Stone. You can access the dictionary itself at the Oriental Institute's website here. It's been a busy year or two for the lexicographers at the Oriental Institute--last summer this blog reported on their completion of the Assyrian Dictionary.