Funding organisation: DFG Funding level: Personnel and physical resources Running time: 2002 – 2004   Project description:   Carl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) was born in Naumburg, raised and educated at the Schulpforta grammar school and later studied in Leipzig, Göttingen, Berlin and Paris. He is considered the founder of German Egyptology. His volumes of plates were created as a result of his scientific expedition to the Nile Valley and the Sudan, which was financed by the Prussian King Wilhelm IV in the years 1842-1845. The work about memorials (in folio format) shows the entire archaeological, palaeographic and historical yield of the expedition, many architectural and landscape pictures in colour, as well as maps and hieroglyphic written monuments. The exact and detailed pictures of the discoveries were drawn by the Weidenbach brothers as well as the painter Frey and, later, Georgi. During the expedition, Lespius kept a diary, which was later published by his student Eduard Naville. A large number of Egyptian monuments dismantled at that time are now on displayat the Egyptian Museum in Berlin.   The project   The project encompassed the digitisation of Lepsius’s 12 plate works, each amounting to 80-90 pages. A single volume weighs approx. 16 kg. The size of the originals is 610 x 780 mm. In addition, the diaries were digitised, all published in 5 volumes with approx. 300 pages per volume. The digitisation was carried out at the ULB by using the original works. Plate works and text volumes are digitally linked to each other, thus users are able to navigate between the descriptive text volumes and the representations of the Tafelwerk.   Access to the project site