diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/hieroglyph/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/hieroglyph/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e79cdede092e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/hieroglyph/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+{ stdenv , fetchurl , buildPythonPackage , sphinx }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  version = "0.7.1";
+  name = "hieroglyph-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://pypi/h/hieroglyph/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0rswfk7x6zlj1z8388f153k3zn2h52k5h9b6p57pn7kqagsjilcb";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ sphinx ];
+
+  # all tests fail; don't know why:
+  # test_absolute_paths_made_relative (hieroglyph.tests.test_path_fixing.PostProcessImageTests) ... ERROR
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Generate HTML presentations from plain text sources";
+    homepage = https://github.com/nyergler/hieroglyph/;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ juliendehos ];
+    platforms = platforms.unix;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 505098ded65e..3bc3732d9f0d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -24773,6 +24773,8 @@ in {
     doCheck = false;
   };
 
+  hieroglyph = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hieroglyph { };
+
   sphinx_rtd_theme = buildPythonPackage (rec {
     name = "sphinx_rtd_theme-0.1.9";