If you're in Istanbul or Ankara, you might be able to get sheets of
actual papyrus "paper" at the shops in the museums of antiquities. The
front of the papyrus has the strips of reed horizontal; you only write
on the back (vertical) side if you've run out of space on the front.

You should use a broad-edge pen (such as is used for either Western or
Arabic calligraphy), because hieroglyphs were written with a pen made
from a reed cut to the same sort of shape as modern pens.

Taner Girgin wrote:

>
> Hi,
>  
> This is regarding my birthday message issue. I found some help on
> translating the message to Egyptian hierogliphics from the latin
> alphabet. But the next stage is what kind of paper should I look for
> to write the message on.
>  
> I have a decent Rotring ArtPen which I can use to "try to" draw the
> figures. As far as I know ancient people used to write on Papirus.
> What should I use that is easily purchasable so that it looks proper?
>  
> Thanks for those who gave an introduction to the topic. I will contact
> them sometime later in case I need further assistance on translation.
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> Taner.

> Hi All,
>  
> I've recently joined your group. I am a 29 years old Turkish
> engineer. To be honest with you, though I did try
> calligraphy, my aim is to have some practical help with
> Egyptian hierogliphics to write a birthday message. I saved
> a web page that shows latin alphabet versus hierogliphics
> sketches. But according to the page, looks like some latin
> characters have the same hieroglphics counter-parts. Is that
> the case? Besides, there are figures representing more than
> one characters, or let's say: sounds.
>  
> Is there someone out there who can help me? Any online
> reference would also be great.

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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...