Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur
Encyclopedia
Egyptology
Egyptology is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religious practices in the AD 4th century. A practitioner of the discipline is an “Egyptologist”...
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SAK was founded in 1973 by Professor Hartwig Altenmueller and Professor Dietrich Wildung, with the aim of creating a useful communication mechanism for scholars researching ancient Egyptian culture. The first volume appeared in 1974, with a set of guidelines appearing under a stylised representation of the s3k crocodile hieroglyph
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood...
sketched by Professor Wildung. This choice of name and logo may be a pun on the ancient Egyptian word (ˈsɑːk), which means "to pull together".
The journal was edited by both professors until 1993. From Volume 21 (1994) onwards, the journal has been edited by Professor Altenmueller and Nicole Kloth. Since volume 39 (2010) they SAK are edited by Prof. Dr. Jochem Kahl (Berlin) und Dr. Nicole Kloth (Heidelberg). Together with the new editorship an advisory board has been set up. Abstracts of all articles from 1994 to the present are available (s. below "external links").
Articles appearing in this journal are mostly written in German
German language
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but, as is normal with Egyptological journals, articles written in other languages, principally English
English language
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and French
French language
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, are accepted for publication.
The journal is published annually by the Hamburg publisher Helmut Buske Verlag. It is generally some 300-400 pages in length and its price varies from around 90 to 120 euro
Euro
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s. Each edition has its own ISBN, but the journal is also identified with .