This work presents an Information Retrieval system specifically designed to manage Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts taking into account their peculiarities both at lexical and at encoding level for its application in Egyptology and Digital Heritage. The tool has been made freely available to the research community under a free license and, to the best of our knowledge, it is the first tool of its kind.

Progress made in recent years has led to a growing interest in Digital Heritage. This article focuses on Egyptology and, more specifically, the study and preservation of ancient Egyptian scripts. We present a Text Retrieval system developed specifically to work with hieroglyphic texts. We intend to make it freely available to the research community. To the best of our knowledge this is the first tool of its kind.

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