2026
1. Sébastien Marchand, "Histoire de la Macédoine hellénistique," Guides bibliographiques & documentaires, 11 p.
10.5281/zenodo.18961476.
This bibliography offers a gradual introduction for non-specialists interested in the history of the Kingdom of Macedonia, a region in northern Greece whose most famous symbol and ruler was Alexander the Great. It focuses on the Hellenistic period of the kingdom: less, therefore, on Alexander's reign itself (336-323 BCE) than on the new era he ushered in, whose key players for Macedonia were the kings of the Antigonid dynasty, who occupied the throne for most of this period (277-168 BCE). The references provided deal primarily with political history, but also seek to cover all aspects of society (economy, war, religion, culture, etc.) and all the documents used to study it (literary, archaeological, numismatic and epigraphic sources, etc.).
2. Sven Günther, "Journal of Ancient Civilizations (JAC), or How to place an Afro-Eurasian antiquity journal in the scholarly market," Librarians & Editors for Ancient Studies. Voices, 19 p. 10.5281/zenodo.19171355.
This paper delineates the development of the Journal of Ancient Civilizations (JAC) — published by the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China — and its contributions to the scholarly world. JAC has transformed from an institute's network-based platform into an internationally recognized scholarly publication which serves to bridge the gap between Chinese scholars studying the Ancient Afro-Eurasian world and the latest international research. This paper reviews the transformation process and addresses the challenges currently being faced by the integrated institution-journal-identity model in a rapidly changing journal market which trends towards digital publishing.
3. Luiza Osorio G. Silva, "Ancient Egyptian Kingship," Guides bibliographiques & documentaires, 11 p.
10.5281/zenodo.19307243.
This guide introduces readers to the fundamentals, essential developments, and complementary developments of ancient Egyptian kingship studies. Ancient Egyptian kingship, a complex facet of ancient Egyptian society, remains a topic of fascination for both scholars and the wider public. Its study has traditionally focused on the nature of kings and related topics such as legitimacy and cosmology. However, in recent years scholars have started to recontextualize kingship within broader ancient Egyptian society, seeking to understand how the royal institution was engaged with by a variety of actors. This guide traces some of these developments and provides readers with an overview of the origins of scholarship and the current state of the field.
4. Carlos Gracia Zamacona, "Dealing with ancient Egyptian mortuary texts: why and how to study an ancient culture in the 21st century," Librarians & Editors for Ancient Studies. Voices, 38 p. 10.5281/zenodo.19461944.
Ancient Egyptian mortuary texts are ad-hoc, in-context productions that were in constant adaptation to changes in mentality, specific production situations, and use interests, rather than established textual units. For this reason, their variability is so high that the need for digital techniques to assess this fundamental feature is evident to anyone familiar with this material. This article briefly presents the problems, aims, and strategies proposed by the MORTEXVAR project and related projects run at the University of Alcalá.
5. Carlos Carvalhar, "Bibliographie essentielle sur Platon et l'Égypte", Guides bibliographiques & documentaires, 14 p.
10.5281/zenodo.20418510.
The main objective of this article is to provide quick access to an essential bibliography on Egypt in Plato. Indeed, this theme is only addressed within a niche field of study that is frequently overlooked. This concerns both the historicity of Plato's journey to Egypt and the debate about Egyptian thought. Regarding the latter, while there are explicit mentions within the dialogues, we must not ignore the implicit traces, which are even less discussed. We will briefly highlight the myth of Atlantis, the critique of writing in the myth of Theuth, and other themes such as eschatology, politics, and the arts.
6. Charles Vanthournout, "L'Amérique face aux pharaons : l'égyptomanie américaine au XIXe siècle," Guides bibliographiques & documentaires, 20 p.
10.5281/zenodo.19570293.
This bibliographic guide offers a structured synthesis of scholarship devoted to American Egyptomania from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. It aims to organize a rapidly expanding field of research on the reception of antiquity by highlighting the diversity of historical, cultural, political, and intellectual approaches used to study the American fascination with ancient Egypt.
7. So Miyagawa, "Building an OPAC for a Specialized Ancient Near Eastern and Egyptological Library in Japan: The UTsukuba RCWAC OPAC," Librarians & Editors for Ancient Studies. Voices, 34 p. 10.5281/zenodo.20020475.
This paper describes the design, implementation, and deployment of a quadrilingual (Japanese, English, Arabic, German) open-source Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) for the Research Center for West Asian Civilization (RCWAC) at the University of Tsukuba. The RCWAC library holds over 9,000 volumes spanning cuneiform studies, West Asian archaeology, and Egyptology, including donated collections of considerable scope. Faced with the challenge of making this multilingual, multiscript collection discoverable without dedicated server infrastructure or institutional IT support, we developed a fully client-side single-page application built with Vite, powered by Zotero RDF data, and deployed at zero cost on GitHub Pages and a university Apache server. The system features token-based fuzzy search with optional semantic similarity via ONNX Runtime Web, a four-section transliteration keyboard for Egyptological and Assyriological special characters, right-to-left layout support for Arabic, and prominent call number display to bridge digital discovery with physical shelf access. By situating this project within the broader landscape of digital library platforms for ancient studies—from large-scale initiatives such as the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) and the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA) to the Lib-Static methodology for sustainable digital collections—we discuss the practical choices, technical trade-offs, and lessons learned that may inform similar efforts at other specialized research libraries.
8. So Miyagawa, "Egyptological and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Japan: Key References Available in Japanese Libraries," Guides bibliographiques & documentaires, 13 p.
10.5281/zenodo.19771814.
This bibliographic guide surveys the principal Japanese-language publications and reference works for Egyptological and Ancient Near Eastern studies that are available primarily or exclusively in Japanese libraries, with particular attention to the holdings of the Research Center for West Asian Civilization (RCWAC) library at the University of Tsukuba. It covers pioneering grammars and textbooks, institutional histories, and key serial publications that have shaped the development of Orientogaku in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present.
本書誌ガイドは、主に日本国内の図書館でのみ利用可能なエジプト学・古代近東研究の日本語文献および参考資料を概観するものである。筑波大学西アジア文明研究センター(RCWAC)図書室の蔵書に特に注目しつつ、20世紀初頭から現在に至るまで日本のオリエント学の発展を形作ってきた先駆的文法書・教科書、学術史、主要逐次刊行物を取り上げる。
9. Edson Poiati Filho, "Bibliothèque ouverte des mondes anciens (BOMA): Initial Milestones of an Independent Open-Access Non-Profit Publishing Initiative," Librarians & Editors for Ancient Studies. Voices, 21 p. 10.5281/zenodo.19255097.
Bibliothèque ouverte des mondes anciens (BOMA) is a non-profit publishing initiative conceived in France during the summer of 2025. This paper presents the initial milestones reached after several months of development. It describes the two foundational pillars of BOMA: 1) a zero-cost operating model and 2) an editorial policy that encourages experimentation. It discusses the legal framework, hosting and indexation, long-term online preservation, licensing, scientific authority, publishing tools, and visual identity, before outlining future perspectives.
