Words of the outside world. BBC: Lost manuscript of Merlin and King Arthur legend read for the first time after centuries hidden inside another book, Ferguson 25 March. Gizmodo: Tales of Merlin and King Arthur Resurface After 750 Years, Hidden in a Bookbinding, 500 years ago, someone decided to use parts of a now-rare manuscript to bind together property records, Bassi, March 30, 2025. Slight different info in the two articles, magnets (Giz) & what they use the magnets for (BBC). Hat tip M & G.
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I can’t get the hieroglyph art sites to work on my system. Perhaps you will have more luck.
Penn Museum: Write Your Name in Hieroglyphics
PBS: Hieroglyphs, Spell Your Name
Other sites give instructions to draw your own.
Memphis (TN), Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology: Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs
ROM: Activity: Write Your Name in Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Royal Ontario Museum. Step-by-step instructions for breaking down each name into sounds. “For example, ancient Egyptians did not have the letter ‘x’, so in foreign names, the sound was represented by using ‘ks’.” If you are trying to write, say, Virtual Brush BOX. Ibid
Or reproduced as jewelry.
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science: Personalized Egyptian Cartouche
Among many, many others.
Fun Fact. “Hieroglyphs can be written from left to right (like English), right to left (like Arabic, Hebrew, or Urdu), or even top to bottom (like Chinese). However you write them, all the faces of the figures should be pointing in the same direction. To read the hieroglyphs, read in the direction that moves toward their faces.” ROM
Process Notes
Given my limited understanding of hieroglyphics, I believe they were used for ceremonial and religious purposes. You did not get your name in pictures unless you were the pharaoh, or one of his BFFs. There was a second, more casual script used for record-keeping.
Is it cultural appropriation if the originating civilization has been gone for thousands of years?
Whatever the background, transliterating words into hieroglyphics is popular, probably because pretty.
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
Fascinating but my name starts with a snake. Fine for you but not my favorite symbol.
Joan
Sssssssssorry.
My names starts with an owl, and others were blank. I can handle an owl.
I read the story about the hidden, but found, manuscript from King Arthur’s tale — wow! I enlarged the text photo, and gee — I guess no one ever needed an eraser! Perfect handwriting, since this was written before the printing press. What a find!
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Interestingly – to me anyway – you could scrape mistakes off parchment.