The Basics: Write Your Name in Hieroglyphics Write Your Name in Hieroglyphics
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Write your name in Hieroglyphics
The Basics
• Hieroglyphics were used in Egypt and are one of the first writing systems in the world.
• Although they look like pictures, a lot of the time hieroglyphs represent sounds.
• Hieroglyphs may only represent consonants (like Phoenician).
How to write The Letters
your name
Hieroglyph English Hieroglyph English
00 or % y as in ‘yes’ s as in ‘sing’
1. Spell out your name ?
as you would normally M or ( w as in ‘water’ A z as in ‘zebra’
do, with English let-
\ b as in ‘boat’ < q as in ‘queen’
ters, and find all the
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consonants. p as in ‘party’ k as in ‘king’
2. Use the list on the right f as in ‘f ish’ , g as in ‘go’
to find out how to write
2 m as in ‘mum’ t as in ‘tail’
the consonants in your
name. B ,
4 O
n as in ‘night’ ch as in ‘church’
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r as in ‘right’ d as in ‘dance’
# h as in ‘hello’ j as in ‘jungle’
Names of Kings
If you were a king in Egypt, you would write at least one of your names inside a ring,
known as a cartouche. Can you work out who the king at the top of the page is? To
work it out you will need some extra signs:
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