
Episode 5: Beneath the Obelisks (Ancient Egyptian Fiction)
Literature and History
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Introduction
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead is a vast tome full of incantations. More copies and fragments have been found in Egyptian dig sites than any other piece of writing. Egyptians, like their Mesopotamian counterparts, were prolific writers. We still have enough ancient Egyptian writing to form a picture of their secular and commercial lives.
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