Nomarchs

Tony Leier

HINTS:
NOTES ON ANCIENT EGYPTIAN:
  1. It's phonetic.
  2. It's closer to a semitic language, so the phonemes (and alphabet) don't match English sometimes. The translation is as close as possible and consistent - but necessarily an interpretation.
  3. There are mostly uniliterals, plus some biliterals (one symbol representing multiple sounds/letters).
  4. As far as references go, there are many on the web -- and often they conflict with each other and are almost always incomplete. Different references also use different English letters to represent the hieroglyph sounds. Unfortunately, a site that many go to first, omniglot, is not one of the better ones, in fact, it's pretty bad in my opinion. It's incomplete, unclear, and has terrible representations (pictures) of both the glyphs and the IPA phonemes they represent.
  5. Books are better references. I recommend "Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook" by Ruth Schumann-Antelme and Stephane Rossini.

SOLUTION:

Find the governors of the 50 states in the US.

Single circled letters are the remainders.

SOLUTION GRID NOTES:

Notes on the notation in the puzzle solution grid. Since Egyptian has many more letters than English, and not all the same ones, I reused some letters Egyptian doesn't use for other sounds, and used some symbols where needed. What follow is some notes on what each symbol represents.

FINAL SOLUTION:

The last step is to take the remaining letters
GREKNAMOFONORIUNU
or
Greek name of On or Iunu

Answer: HELIOPOLIS