Blog – Egyptian Hieroglyphs

I’m back? Kinda.

April 7, 2021

It’s been a while… seven years? Something like that. I was pretty sure that I was done with the site when I made my last post. I’d left my Ph.D. program by then and moved on to a different career. Even though Egyptology was all I’d known for the bulk of my academic life, I didn’t want anything to do with it anymore. It wasn’t until this past month that I finally opened up a book related to ancient Egypt. Allen and Hoch’s Middle Egyptian Grammars and then Kemp’s Anatomy of a Civilization. I needed the break from Egypt. Badly.

Farewell!

September 29, 2015

It’s been a while since I’ve updated anything on this site (years?), and to be honest, there probably won’t be another update after this post. This site started as a fun project during my undergrad. I worked on it nearly every day back then, trying to make it a great study tool. It was a priority. But now, years later, not so much. It’s been fun, watching the site grow from me being the only visitor to the now 200-300 visitors/day, but it’s time for me to bow out. I have other projects and obligations that need my attention. I’ll

Someone out there likes me! Well, enough to scrape my content. Beware of mdw-ntr.com

July 24, 2013

This post doesn’t have much to do with Egyptian Hieroglyphs, but it makes for an interesting story. On a whim, I decided to check out Google’s Webmaster Tools. I don’t use the tools as often as I should, but I was interested in seeing who was linking to the site. One page stood out. This website linked to each of my lessons. Nothing particularly strange about that, but I decided to investigate. I clicked the link to check out the site, but I found the page unavailable. A slight annoyance, but nothing big. I just had to use Google’s cached

A Quick Update: Coffins, Moving, and Site Improvements

May 28, 2013

And we’re back! It has been a while since I’ve been able to update the site–sorry for the lack of activity. Now that I’m done with my thesis, I have enough free time to update the site consistently. I want to write a quick blog post to share a little about what I have been up to and some of future plans for Egyptian Hieroglyphs. M.A.: Complete. This last semester has been a whirlwind of crazy. In late January, I changed thesis topics and flew halfway across the U.S. to photograph a Third Intermediate Period coffin (inner coffin and mummy

The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor: Lines 9-17

September 26, 2012

As promised, here is another section of The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, lines 9-17.

In case you missed it, you can find lines 1-8 here, and the answers are posted in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs forum. Again, if you would like to see the transliteration, transliteration, and comments, you need to register for the forums.

In the last part we were introduced to a msw iqr, “excellent follower,” who was addressing ohis superior, the “ty-.” The excellent follower speaks of the success of the expedition, emphasizing that there were no losses and they returned home safely. At this point, it is unclear who this excellent follower is or why he is addressing his superior of the success of the expedition of which he was a member. The next few lines may shed some light…

The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor: Lines 1-8

September 17, 2012

In this article (and the following) I will be slowly working through a Middle Egyptian text. Each week I will post a few lines of the text for you to work through. You can work through them at your own pace. A translation, transliteration, as well as parsing comments will be made available in the forums each week. So, if you would like to test your translation against another, all you need to do is sign up for our forums.

Additionally, If you are getting stuck, feel free to ask your questions in the forums. Other people working through the text may have the same problem.

Eventually, once the text is completed, it will be available in full form in a new Egyptian text page that will debut later this year.

Below are the first 7 lines in The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, good luck!