HISTORY

If monuments were the glory of the Egyptian Old Kingdom (2675 – 2130 BCE) and conquest was the glory of the New Kingdom (1550 – 1070 BCE), then the glory of the Middle Kingdom (2030 – 1650 BCE) was its literature. They range from fiction (“The Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor” and “The Story of Sinuhe”) to wisdom literature (“The Instructions of Ptahhotep and Kagemni”).

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