This present study offers a segment of hieroglyphic writing from a discrete period: the disturbed times from the end of the Old Kingdom to the end of the First Intermediate Period. The hieroglyphs from the Akhmim cemetery of El-Hawawish have been drawn from various sources; consequently, the length of the era and the varied nature of the writing surfaces and the materials used at times encouraged the introduction of numerous variations into Egypt's hieroglyphic corpus. The Australian publication of this hieroglyphic record from El-Hawawish has been especially important because of the poor state of preservation of the tombs and the limited printed material available prior to the 1980s. The original documentation was carried out by volunteer students from the universities of Auckland and Macquarie, under the guidance of Professor Naguib Kanawati