Dealing with ancient Egyptian mortuary texts: why and how to study an ancient culture in the 21st century

Ancient Egyptian mortuary texts are ad-hoc, in-context productions that were in constant adaptation to changes in mentality, specific production situations, and use interests, rather than established textual units. For this reason, their variability is so high that the need for digital techniques to assess this fundamental feature is evident to anyone familiar with this material. This article briefly presents the problems, aims, and strategies proposed by the MORTEXVAR project and related projects run at the University of Alcalá.