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Manuscript specialist for Christie's, Eugenio Donadoni describes the text as the "earliest witnesses to development in cultural and textual transmission" that "would not be rivalled in significance until Gutenberg's printing press" and that the "earliest monks in Upper Egypt, in the earliest Christian monastery were using this very book to ...
The Description de l'Égypte (French pronunciation: [dɛskʁipsjɔ̃ də leʒipt], "Description of Egypt") was a series of publications, appearing first in 1809 and continuing until the final volume appeared in 1829, which aimed to comprehensively catalog all known aspects of ancient and modern Egypt as well as its natural history.
John Payne - The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (unexpurgated) (1882–84) Edward Powys Mathers based on J. C. Mardrus in 4 volumes (1923) Malcolm C. Lyons and Ursula Lyons - The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights published by Penguin Books based on the Macnaghten or Calcutta II edition (Egyptian recension) in 10 volumes (2008)
Writing in ancient Egypt—both hieroglyphic and hieratic—first appeared in the late 4th millennium BC during the late phase of predynastic Egypt. By the Old Kingdom (26th century BC to 22nd century BC), literary works included funerary texts , epistles and letters, hymns and poems, and commemorative autobiographical texts recounting the ...
The earliest stage of experimentation with the Egyptian language in the Greek alphabet is often called Pre-Old Coptic or Graeco-Egyptian. Other authors distinguish between early and late Old Coptic. [11] Old Coptic consists of pagan writings of a magical or divinatory nature. [1]
Under the entries for the days, there are always two vertical columns describing what happened on these days (Section B II): [Day 1] The director of 6 Idjeru casts for Heliopolis in a transport boat to bring us food from Heliopolis while the elite is in Tura, Day 2 Inspector Merer spends the day with his troop hauling stones in Tura North ...
Book of Abraham Manuscript-C [33] 31 cm × 19 cm (12.2 in × 7.5 in) The most complete manuscript with 5 leaves comprising Abraham 1:1–2:18. William W. Phelps and Warren Parrish: July–November 1835: 1 Book of Abraham Manuscript and Explanation of Facsimile I [34] 29 cm × 19 cm (11.4 in × 7.5 in)
The Amduat [pronunciation?] (Ancient Egyptian: jmj dwꜣt, literally "That Which Is In the Afterworld", also translated as "Text of the Hidden Chamber Which is in the Underworld" and "Book of What is in the Underworld"; Arabic: كتاب الآخرة, romanized: Kitab al-Akhira) [1] is an important ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom of Egypt.