Have any ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics been translated and published? If so where could one find them online?

by second_prize

If not why not?

Bentresh

Yes, there are translations of all genres of Egyptian texts in multiple languages (French and German are most common).

As for where to find translations, that depends a great deal on what sorts of texts you're looking for. (Historical? Literary? Economic? Letters? Prayers?) The best translations of Egyptian literature are Ancient Egyptian Literature by Miriam Lichtheim and The Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry edited by William Kelley Simpson, et al.

The "Writings from the Ancient World" series has several sets of good translations of Egyptian texts:

  • Letters from Ancient Egypt by Edward Wente

  • Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt by William Murnane

  • Hymns, Prayers and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry by John Foster

  • Texts from the Pyramid Age by Nigel Strudwick

  • The Libyan Anarchy: Inscriptions from Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period by Robert Ritner

  • The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts by James Allen

  • Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt by Elizabeth Frood