May 5, 2006

UCLA Plans Online Encyclopedia of Egyptology

By JENNIFER HOWARD

PYRAMID SCHEME: The University of California at Los Angeles unveiled plans last week for what appears to be the world's first online, peer-reviewed encyclopedia devoted to ancient Egypt. The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egypt, which in April won a $325,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, will include material in Arabic as well as English.

The encyclopedia will be the only "clearly bilingual" comprehensive reference work in the field, according to Willeke Wendrich, the

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