Terms of use

By using this site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use it.

The site is for personal and educational use.

Not permitted: attempting to disrupt the service, heavy automated scraping of the content, or republishing the site as your own.

The text we write belongs to the project.

The hieroglyph sign catalogue is built on public Unicode standards, and we intend to publish it as open data.

The cartouche you generate with your own name is yours to use however you like, personally or commercially.

There are no comments or open contributions on the site yet.

When they open, they will come with moderation tools, reporting and clear rules — not before.

We work hard to give every claim a source and a stated confidence level.

Even so: understanding of ancient history changes, dates are estimates, and scholars disagree. This is a serious educational reference, not a substitute for specialist academic research.

If you use something from here in academic work, go back to the original source cited.

The site is provided "as is". We are not liable for damage arising from its use or from its interruption.

Answers from the AI assistant are not specialist advice or a scholarly reference — this is stated plainly before it is used.

Until a legal entity is registered for the project, this clause is genuinely unsettled.

It will be determined then and written here.

Much of what you see here is not ours, and each part carries its own terms:

Wikidata — CC0, public domain. Wikimedia Commons — CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA depending on the file. Wikipedia — CC BY-SA; any text taken from it appears with the article name and a link. OpenStreetMap — ODbL; we link out rather than copying their data. News — belongs to its publishers; we show the headline, the publisher's own excerpt and a link to the original.

These terms override none of those licences, and grant you no rights in them that their owners do not grant.

Content we wrote ourselves: republish it with the source named and a link to the page.

Content taken from Wikipedia: the same CC BY-SA obligations pass to you — attribution, a link, and share-alike. That is why the article name is always shown beside the text.

Images: follow the licence shown with the image, not the site's.

News: do not republish the excerpts — go to the publisher.

This is an independent project built in limited hours, and we promise no particular uptime.

Parts of it may stop, the news may lag when a publisher does not answer, and a feature may close briefly while it is repaired. When that happens the page says the content is unavailable right now — it does not claim the content does not exist.