Your name in Hieroglyphs

[chelsea]

I'm doing an essay on Ancient Egypt and came across a site where you can see your name in hieroglyphs, the way an Egyptian scribe might have written it. I thought it was pretty cool.

http://www.upennmuseum.com/hieroglyphsreal.cgi


Here's mine;


http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphC.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphH.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphE.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphL.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphS.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphE.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphA.gif

[catnapper]

So funny you podsted this... hubby is a 7th grade history teacher and he juts had projects where they all had to have their name in heiroglyphs! LOL... I helped him grade the projects and looked at a whole lotta these things! And yes, many came from this site.

[chelsea]

I have be reading up on it so much I'll probably dream about it tonight, lol.

[luvofallhorses]

here is mine

[luvofallhorses]

here is mine.. :p

[luvofallhorses]

how come it won't show up right :confused:

[chelsea]

Each symbol has to be posted like you would a picture in order to show up. :)

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

Here is mine... :)

sara

http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphS.gif .
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphA.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphR.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphA.gif

[BitsyNaceyDog]

Here is my name:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/kblaix/other/eglyphTOP.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/kblaix/other/eglyphK.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/kblaix/other/eglyphA.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/kblaix/other/eglyphR.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/kblaix/other/eglyphI.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/kblaix/other/eglyphBOTTOM.gif

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

We were in Egypt ln November 2003 (see pics on my web-site!). I have my Egyptian name on a t-shirt!!

http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphTOP.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphL.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphU.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphT.gif
http://www.upennmuseum.com/images/eglyphBOTTOM.gif

[dukedogsmom]

Mine was ugly. Started out with a snail.