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Egyptian Tales - Series 2

William Matthew Flinders Petrie

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Egyptian stories translated from ancient, often incomplete, documents

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .been plundered; perhaps his active life of foreign service did not give him that leisure to carve and decorate it, which was so laboriously spent by the home-living dignitaries of Thebes.

CLOSE OF THE XVIIIth DYNASTY

THE DOOMED PRINCE

THERE once was a king to whom no son was born; and his heart was grieved, and he prayed for himself unto the gods around him for a child. They decreed that one should be born to him. And his wife, after her time was fulfilled, brought forth a son. Then came the Hathors to decree for him a destiny; they said, "His death is to be by the crocodile, or by the serpent, or by the dog." Then the people who stood by heard this, and they went to tell it to his majesty. Then his majesty's heart sickened

14 THE DOOMED PRINCE

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Community Reviews

Written towards those with more than your average history of ancient Egypt in mind, nonetheless appears to be faithful translations of some truly ancient stories. Commentaries do a great job pointing out historical trends in Egyptian storytelling, and applying these thoughts to storytelling in gener

This was a fascinating read on the popular stories during the 5th dynasty of the Egyptian empire. Their fascination with all things magic made me think of Moses and his adventures with the Egyptian magicians.

The importance of this was a very old story of ancient Egyptian Pharaonic era stage and history, which are numerous stories of a social life in Egypt at that time