HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) employs the latest digital technology to develop an innovative methodology to the study of spatial data in Herodotus’ Histories. Using a digital text of Herodotus, freely available from the Perseus on-line library, to capture all the place-names mentioned in the narrative, we construct a database to house that information and represent i...

Sir,?I send you an extract from Herodotus describing how the early Egyptians protected themselves from mosquito bit and at the same time from malaria. The mesh of the hshing e must have been very fine to prevent the ingress of i^n0P'1? or Culex. The custom of sleeping on the flat roofs ot houses is still common in Egypt and the small tower risi ? above the roof is found in the representations o...

Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is that the mechanical or electronic conversion of scanned pictures of written, typed or written text into machine-encoded text. It’s wide used as a style of knowledge entry from some form of original paper data supply, whether or not documents, sales receipts, mail, or any range of written records. It’s a typical technique of digitizin...

Steganography is the process of hiding one medium of communication (text, sound or image) within another. This paper will discuss the tools used to both hide and unhide (know as Steganalysis) information. A look at the history starting with Herodotus in ancient Greece describing secret messages written in wax on stone tablets, to world war two’s secret double meaning Nazi messages and British I...

HESTIA (the Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) employs the latest digital technology to develop an innovative methodology to the study of spatial data in Herodotus’ Histories. Using a digital text of Herodotus, freely available from the Perseus on-line library, to capture all the place-names mentioned in the narrative, we construct a database to house that information and represent i...

Most database applications capture their data using graphical forms. Fields have limited size and predefined type. Although data in fields is associated with constraints, it is modeled to conform to a rigid schema. Unfortunately, too many constraints on data are not convenient as most human activities are document-centric. In fact, documents are a natural way for human information production an...