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Episode 5: Beneath the Obelisks (Ancient Egyptian Fiction)

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Nemtinacht, a Peasant in a Donkey Cart

Kunanup was a farmer in Egypt. He and his family got along by growing provisions, eating what they needed and exchanging the surplus for what they could not produce on their own. The overseer Nemtinacht planned to confiscate Kunanup's donkey when it bit off an ear of corn. After ten days hovering around Nemtinacht's lands, Kunanup tells the landowner Renzi that some justice must be brought to the greedy man.

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