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  2. Ancient Egyptian literature - Wikipedia

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    Other letters of the early Middle Kingdom have also been found to use epistolary formulas similar to the Book of Kemit. [151] The Heqanakht papyri, written by a gentleman farmer, date to the Eleventh dynasty and represent some of the lengthiest private letters known to have been written in ancient Egypt. [72]

  3. Ancient literature - Wikipedia

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    Ancient literature comprises religious and scientific documents, tales, poetry and plays, royal edicts and declarations, and other forms of writing that were recorded on a variety of media, including stone, clay tablets, papyri, palm leaves, and metal.

  4. List of largest books by page count - Wikipedia

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    Ilan Manouach's Onepiece, a book of more than 20,000 pages, was labeled functionally as a "sculpture" because of the difficulty one would experience when trying to turn its many pages. [6] Many novels with a total page count that reaches into the thousands are split into different volumes. Novels that use this method are often regarded as a ...

  5. Iliad - Wikipedia

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    For the Most Beautiful, [81] written by classicist and historian Emily Hauser in 2016, narrates the lives of Chryseis and Briseis in their own words. Natalie Haynes 's 2019 novel A Thousand Ships [ 82 ] narrates the consequences of the Fall of Troy through the eyes and words of the women involved.

  6. Anabasis (Xenophon) - Wikipedia

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    Anabasis (/ ə ˈ n æ b ə s ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀνάβασις; an "expedition up from") is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. [2] It gives an account of the expedition of the Ten Thousand , an army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia ...

  7. List of historic Indian texts - Wikipedia

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    Essential collections of teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, as written by his followers, three centuries later. Tripiṭaka: Puranas: Historic texts (usually about a royal lineage or local legends) - written by court-appointed historians. Usually contrasted with historical descriptions in vedas, brahmanas, etc., that are written by priests.

  8. Ancient Greek literature - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek literature especially influenced later Greek literature. For instance, the Greek novels influenced the later work Hero and Leander, written by Musaeus Grammaticus. [151] Ancient Roman writers were acutely aware of the ancient Greek literary legacy and many deliberately emulated the style and formula of Greek classics in their own ...

  9. Sumerian King List - Wikipedia

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    The text is best known under its modern name Sumerian King List, which is often abbreviated to SKL in scholarly literature. A less-used name is the Chronicle of the One Monarchy, reflecting the notion that, according to this text, there could ever be only one city exercising kingship over Mesopotamia. [2]