THE ATHENAEUMEgyptian Tales, Translated from the PapyriW. M. Flinders Petrie
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Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textStories from Egyptian papyri of the Old and Middle Kingdoms, translated by the archaeologist Flinders Petrie in 1895. Among them are the tale of Sinuhe, an official who flees Egypt and longs all his life to be buried there, and stories of magicians told at the court of King Khufu. They are among the oldest stories in the world.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 1 hr 15 min
- Where to find it
- The African Reading Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #7386. In the public domain in the United States.