Group exhibition
100 Years of the Dictionary of the Egyptian Language
Jun 6 – Dec 31, 2026 Mitte
Objects from the Egyptian Dictionary archive mark the centenary of the first volume of the dictionary of ancient Egyptian, begun in this museum in 1897.
Adolf Erman and his team copied known Egyptian texts onto index cards, building an archive of more than a million cards from which the dictionary was compiled. After the First World War and inflation, a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1924 paid for the printing. Material from the archive follows the path from ancient inscriptions to the finished volumes.
Museum Mitte
