There is a book out there that apparently 4 people translated Egyptian characters into English. Book, here is book. I believe that’s it based on the article and time I heard about it.
There's a book on translations of Egyptian tales and monuments coming in January. I'm planning on getting it. Looks good for the price.
I'm a big bookworm, and bit of a history nut. So when I heard about this I was thrilled. Writings from Ancient Egypt.
Why that book in particular? Well besides loving all things ancient Egypt as a kiddy, there aren't that many translations of stories from ancient Egypt. You can get tonnes of stuff from Ancient Greek, and Latin. To be able to read about little snippets of life from those days, it makes my inner geek want to break out and my outer geek does too.
The fact that Egyptian writings were not passed down to the Greeks and widely read, and that the ability to read and write hieroglyphics was lost is certainly an interesting phenomenon to puzzle over. There's no specific reason why this had to be the case, as the Ptolemaic kingdom would have acted as a perfect conduit between the two cultures. But keep in mind that none of the Ptolemaic royalty were said to read Egyptian at all until Cleopatra.
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If OP is interested in Egyptian writing, then there's this wonderful anthology entitled "Writings from Ancient Egypt" https://www.amazon.com/Writings-Ancient-Egypt-Toby-Wilkinson/dp/0141395958
But I have to be honest, after reading the richly objective historiography of Thucydides, the logical puzzles and thought experiments of Plato and Aristotle, an the psychologically complex comedies and tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, Writings from Ancient Egypt simply doesn't come close to reaching the same levels of sophistication. They certainly wrote about interesting topics. There's many paeans to the gods and the pharaohs, biased battle reports, and even a few slice of life moments, but I was expecting something more from a cultural writing tradition of 3000 years that has only been surpassed by Greek and Chinese in longevity. I felt like I learned something new about Egypt, but the book didn't fundamentally change my view of the world or the way I think of knowledge or emotions like the traditional classics do. The reasons Egyptian writings fail to reach these levels is an interesting question worth exploring.