A friend told me about an evening class at Stanford and I couldn't resist. One begins to learn Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs by translating texts on funerary artifacts.
My curiosity led me to see if I could read something outside of the beginner's text book (How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Collier and Manley) and I looked at examples that I saw in museums and museum catalogs.

My drawings
These are my own drawings of texts on Egyptian stelae, offering tables, false doors, and other objects. I've acknowledged the source on each drawing. The translations are mostly mine.

After learning elementary Middle Egyptian, a small study group formed under the guidance of the Egyptologist at Stanford, and we delved into DeBuck's classic, containing the monument inscriptions of some historical Egyptian nobility.

Amenemhat, Khnumhotep, Kay, Hatshepsut, and Thutmose III

These are my transliterations and translations of text from Egyptian Readingbook, by Adrian DeBuck, ISBN 0-89005-213-1, Ares Publishers, Chicago, Illinois.

Three of us persevered in the hieroglyph adventure, and we were privileged to read from the scholarly German volumes of 100 years ago.

The Battle of Megiddo (3.7mB PDF)
Better known as Armageddon, 1479 BCE

DATE OF TEXT:
Reign of Thutmose III, 1479-1425 BCE, Dynasty 18
LOCATION OF TEXT:
Karnak (Sixth Pylon)

My transliterations and translations of text from Urkunden der 18, by Kurt Sethe. Dynastie Dritter Band (Volume 3), Leipzig: J.C. Hinrich'sche Buchhandlung, 1906.