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A sheet of papyrus with an extract from the Egyptian 'Tale of Two Brothers' (Papyrus D'Orbiney). 19th Dynasty, 1185 BCE. (British Museum, London)

Papyrus Kahun LV. 2; veterinary papyrus; 12th Dynasty

The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus (c. 1800 BCE) deals with conception and pregnancy issues as well as contraception. It is kept in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.

19th Dynasty copy of the Ipuwer Papyrus (known as The Lamentations of Ipuwer or The Admonitions of Ipuwer) in which a Middle Kingdom scribe laments the depths to which the country of Egypt has fallen. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden...

A detail from a Book of the Dead, on papyrus showing hieratic writing of Hornefer, Ptolemaic Period, provenance unknown. (Museo Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

Papyrus of Nesmin; sheet 2 with cols. 5-8. Hieratic text, found in Thebes, Egypt, dating to the Ptolemaic Period. The 'Songs of Isis and Nephthys' are cols. 1—17

Sheets of the Westcar Papyrus, Egyptian, date disputed. (Altes Museum, Berlin)

A reproduction of the Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BCE), an Egyptian medical text.

This is a close-up image of the so-called "Abbott Papyrus". It was a hieratic legal record of an official inspection of certain tombs. The text contains an account of the official examination of Royal Tombs in the Theban Necropolis...

A papyrus letter, written in Aramaic, from the fortified island of Elephantine in Egypt. The letter was written c. 419 BCE by a Jewish man named Hananiah and is addressed to his brother Jedoniah and the rest of...