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Walk like an Ancient Egyptian through NYC. Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian - Wikipedia, the free encycl. In the field of Egyptology, transliteration is the process of converting (or mapping) texts written in the Egyptian language to alphabetic symbols representing uniliteral hieroglyphs or their hieratic and Demotic counterparts.

Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian - Wikipedia, the free encycl

This process facilitates the publication of texts where the inclusion of photographs or drawings of an actual Egyptian document is impractical. Due to the exact details regarding the phonetics of ancient Egyptian not being completely known, most transcriptions depend on Coptic for reconstruction or are theoretical in nature.