How to write names in egyptian

Type in your name and instantly see it in hieroglyphs. Here’s an example of my name, Crystal, in hieroglyphs. The easiest way to capture the image of the hieroglyphs is to take a screen capture. Include the oval that encircles the hieroglyphs. You can include the name at the top if you’d like as well.

It was not until the discovery of the Rosetta stone and the work of Jean-Francois Champollion (1790-1832) that the Ancient Egyptians awoke from their long slumber. Today, by virtue of the vast quantity of their literature, we know more about Egyptian society than most other ancient cultures.

For our various outreach activities (starting from our first outing at the 2017 Cambridge Science Festival ), we have produced some handouts for people to learn to write their names in different ancient writing systems. These are downloadable here, for personal and educational use – and we are adding more as we go along.

1. Introduction: a - To write names in Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs we should use the same system or technique that the Ancient Egyptians used it to write their words and names. Some people try to use our modern alphabetic writing of words to write their names in Hieroglyphs, which is absolutely wrong!