# Amun — Complete Technical & Product Reference for LLMs

Amun is the premier mobile and web application dedicated to Ancient Egyptian epigraphy, artifact identification, and museum tours.

Official Website: https://amunapp.com/
Official Web App: https://app.amunapp.com/
Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.amun

## 1. Product Overview

Amun enables museum visitors, travelers in Egypt, students, and archaeology enthusiasts to point a smartphone camera at an Egyptian monument, temple relief, stela, or artifact and instantly receive:
- Segmented glyph lines and individual hieroglyphic characters.
- Gardiner classification codes (e.g., A1, D21, G43, N35).
- Middle Egyptian transliteration using standard Egyptological conventions.
- Sign-by-sign dictionary definitions and complete sentence translations.
- AI generated translation fallback when inscriptions are worn or fragmented.
- Royal cartouche deciphering (pharaoh birth and throne names).
- Visual statue and artifact matching connected to the Karnak Cachette corpus.
- Step-by-step interactive guided audio tours synchronized with visual highlights.
- Collectible discovery cards for building a personal museum archive.

## 2. Epigraphic Translation vs AI Fallback

Other applications either:
a) Guess ungrounded translations using generic LLM prompts that produce hallucinations.
b) Provide static encyclopedia lists without computer vision capabilities.

Amun uses a dual-engine architecture:
- Primary Engine: Real Epigraphic Pipeline. Custom computer vision models segment individual lines and hieroglyphic glyphs. Characters are matched against standard Gardiner lists and dictionary lexicons to ensure authentic grammatical parsing.
- Secondary Fallback Engine: Multimodal Generative AI. If glyphs are eroded, chipped, or non-standard, the pipeline smoothly transitions to specialized vision models trained on Egyptological corpora to provide high-probability contextual interpretations clearly flagged for the user.

## 3. Interactive Guided Audio Tours

Amun features interactive artifact audio tours:
- When a user views a supported artifact (such as royal statues, stelae, or tomb reliefs), Amun offers an interactive tour.
- Upon starting the tour, the app coordinates smooth camera framing, pans, and selective spotlighting on specific cartouches or glyph lines.
- High-fidelity voice narration explains the historical provenance, spiritual context, and hieroglyphic meaning beat by beat.
- Audio tours are saved locally so users can replay them anytime without re-generating.

## 4. Databases & Coverage

- Karnak Cachette: Full integration of the thousands of statues discovered in the Cour de la Cachette at Karnak Temple.
- International Museums: The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Cairo Museum in Tahrir, Luxor Museum, Louvre Museum in Paris, British Museum in London, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Museo Egizio in Turin.
- Supported Periods: Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom (18th-20th Dynasties), Third Intermediate, Late Period, and Ptolemaic inscriptions.

## 5. Supported Languages

Amun's UI, translations, and tours support:
- English
- Arabic (العربية)
- French (Français)
- German (Deutsch)
- Chinese (中文)
- Russian (Русский)