: Re: About using authentic historical name for teenager material I am writing a (short) story set in Ancient Egypt, and the intended audience are junior high-senior high school students in the US.

If you jeopardize your authenticity you jeopardize the trust between reader and writer.

As for the hard names there are some stops that can be addressed to make foreign names more familiar

pronunciation (when introducing a character you should explain how to pronounce in some way, footnotes, making it a part of a story, etc..)
context (although we don't operate with meanings of every name we do have historical context for the common names, this can be addressed easily in the story e.g. explaining how someone came to their name)

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