Ancient Egyptian Papyrus
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Ancient Egyptian Papyrus

Turin King List “Turin Royal Canon”

Facts and secrets of the Turin papyrus, the names of the Egyptian Pharaohs kings and Female Pharaohs, the writings they contain, records and information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians, and more.

The Turin Royal Canon Papyrus is a Ancient Egyptian Papyrus consisting of two Egyptian documents dating back to the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty, the beginning of the rule of King Setnakhte, known as The Ramesside Period.

These records contain a set of information, and from that information are records showing what court procedures were used in the past and The application of the Law in Ancient Egypt is symbolized by the god Maat, one of the most famous ancient Egyptian deities. Learn about other information about that papyrus below.

  • The Turin King List Papyri contain court sessions that took place in the first two years of the Renaissance, The era of The New Kingdom in ancient Egypt during the reign of King Ramesses XI, After the death of the king, the era of Third Intermediate Period of Egypt began, the beginning of the rule of the Twenty-first Egyptian Dynasty, and the period of the reign of king Psusennes I in the year 19 BC.
  • The court’s special committee was composed of the Minister of the South and three officials specialized in interrogating the Ancient Egyptian Grave Robbers accused of stealing Egyptian Tombs at Egypt Archaeological Sites.
  • The interrogation of suspects in the theft of the tombs of the Valley of the Kings located in Deir El Bahari in Luxor. was recorded in the Ancient Egyptian Papyrus.
  • Witnesses were interrogated and the criminals were beaten with a stick.
  • The verdict of the accused was confirmed by the head of the Thebes cemetery police, in addition to another group of witnesses.
  • Among the witnesses, it is said that he was a child present at the time of the theft, but the witness was beaten during interrogation.
  • This shows us how strict and very violent the ancient Egyptian judicial system “Ancient Egyptian Law” was, and there were some judges who were biased against the accused as in Social Structure in Ancient Egypt.

Translation of the texts of the Turin Royal Canon Papyrus

  • The second fragment or document is made of Ancient Egyptian Papyrus and is located on the right page.
  • Ancient Egyptian Papyrus consists of 14 horizontal lines and is written in Egyptian hieratic language script “Ancient Egyptian Language“, which is the model used by the 20th Dynasty.
  • Unfortunately, the beginning and end of the document are incomplete.
  • The document explains that the judge is investigating the theft of the Tomb of King Ramses V + King Ramesses VI | KV9, which was built by King Ramses V and King Ramses VI.
  • None of the names of those responsible for investigating that crime was mentioned in the Ancient Egyptian Papyrus.
  • The document also did not clarify the names of the five accused of the theft with certainty.
  • One of the accused in this crime was a coppersmith, “one of the crafts in the Industry in ancient Egypt,” and he was tried in the sixteenth year of the reign of King Ramesses IX who have Tomb of King Ramesses IX | KV6.

What is the most famous Egyptian papyrus?

  • There is a group of other papyri beside the Meyer papyri, including the The Diary of Merer Papyrus and the Abusir Papyri, Which was discovered in the Cemetery of Abu Sir “Abusir Necropolis” in the Abusir area in Giza.
  • Moscow Mathematical Papyrus is one of the papyri that includes mathematical issues and solutions to know more about Ancient Egyptian science and Astronomy in ancient Egypt.
  • Berlin Papyrus “Berlin Papyrus 6619”, which contains topics related to Medicine in ancient Egypt as well as Ancient Egyptian Sport.
  • Prisse Papyrus is a Ancient Egyptian Papyrus containing instructions from Kagemni to Ptahhotep.
  • Other papyri include the Berlin Papyrus, which contains the Story of Sinuhe as in Ancient Egyptian Literature.
  • Ramesseum medical papyri were discovered and they date back to the 18th century BC, and according to their name, they contain medical texts.

Brooklyn Medical Papyrus

Facts, Secrets of What does Brooklyn Medical Papyrus say about Egyptian Pharaohs kings in Ancient Egypt and more.

Facts about the largest Egyptian Pharaonic archaeological papyrus and the secrets of translating texts. The oldest papyri of the Pharaohs tell us the lives of the Pharaonic kings in the ancient civilization of Egypt and more.

In fact, the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus is the largest non-funerary Pharaonic papyrus that was found in Qom from the era of captivity in ancient Egypt.

It was named after a New York American journalist Charles Edwin Wilbour who had acquired and discovered it in 1893.

What is the oldest papyrus text ever located?

  • In fact, the famous scientist Charles Edwin Wilbour had bought approximately seventeen papyri, all of which he obtained from an Egyptian farmer, when he visited Elephantine Island, in Aswan, and that was specifically in the year 1893.
  • Among those papyri that he bought was that archaeological text that is now known or called as the Wilbur Papyrus.

What is the significance of the Elephantine papyri?

At the time, the world did not realize the great importance of this discovery, but when Wilbur died in a hotel in Paris, that hotel had preserved and stored all his personal belongings, including those papyri that he obtained, and they also had two papyri. Two capillaries among them are the Brooklyn Papyrus and all the Elephantine papyri and ostraca.

But then, when the archaeological scientist Wilbur’s possessions had already been returned to his family, after nearly half a century, his widow decided to donate that archaeological Ancient Egyptian Papyrus to the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, USA.

What does the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus deal with?

  • Ancient Egyptian Papyrus is an important lucky papyrus in that it represents to ancient Egypt what the Census Bureau can really represent to us today.
  • This ancient papyrus was also translated by scientist British Egyptologist John Gardner Wilkinson. Most of the first part of this ancient papyrus was also lost due to decomposition over time.
  • In fact, nothing mentioned in that Ancient Egyptian Papyrus refers to the name of the ruling Pharaonic king at that time, but despite ignorance of it, it is believed that it was written during the reign of King Ramses V.

What is the longest papyrus ever found?

Ancient Egyptian Papyrus is also a document that was divided from the inside into two parts, with a length of approximately 33 feet.

It was also written at a length of approximately 127 columns and more than 5200 lines. In addition, Ancient Egyptian Papyrus apparently contains archaeological information about 95 miles of land, and more than one writer had participated in writing it in the past.

Why, although this Ancient Egyptian Papyrus is not the largest papyrus ever found by researchers and Egyptology, it is considered the largest of its kind and categories.

What makes it more important is that it contains a group of valuable information that exceeds those who are larger than it in size.

What is the famous medical Ancient Egyptian Papyrus?

  • Brooklyn Medical Papyrus contains distinctive and different information that expresses the rule of the Ramesside kings over a forbidden period of long years in Egypt.
  • It also contains different information about the period that represents the end of the Ramesside period, The reign of King Ramesses X and King Ramesses IX.
  • This archaeological information in the papyrus also includes both taxes as in Trade in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Egyptian Coins, Brooklyn Medical Ancient Egyptian Papyrus give information about how these administrative practices were going through at the end of the Ramesside period of rule ad in Ancient Egyptian Government.

Turin Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Map

Facts Turin Papyrus Map, Secrets of What does the Turin papyrus say about Egyptian Pharaohs kings in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Egyptian Metallurgy map.

Facts about the most important Egyptian papyrus, the secrets of translating the texts of Turin’s list of pharaohs, the oldest maps that tell us about mining and industry in the civilization of ancient Egypt, and more.

The Turin Papyrus is an Ancient Egyptian Papyrus in which a group of names pertaining to more than 300 pharaohs or a group of kings was written in the past, and how were the years of their rule.

These kings are from the Predynastic Period, Naqada III civilization, beginning with the rule of the kings of the Egyptian Dynasty 00, the Egyptian Dynasty 0King Scorpion II“, and the First Dynasty of Egypt, the beginning of the unification of Egypt at the hands of King Narmer until the era of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

What is the oldest geological map of Egypt?

  • In fact, the Turin Papyrus is an ancient and archaeological Egyptian map, and it is generally considered one of the oldest and most important geological maps that still exist today, and it also has a topographical importance that comes from the ancient world as in Geography of ancient Egypt.
  • Not only that, but it was drawn using Ancient Egyptian Papyrus paper, as it is said that the first time it was discovered and found was in The Tombs of Deir Al-Madina area in Thebes.
  • Italian Egyptologist Bernardino Michele Maria Drovetti, who is known worldwide as Napoleon Proconsol, was able to collect it, and it was then squeezed out in Egypt in the year 1824 AD or sooner than that.
  •  This wonderful Ancient Egyptian Papyrus is now preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Turin.
  • The Egyptian Archaeological Map was drawn around the year 1150 BC and was written by the tomb scribe at that time known and famous as Tomb of NakhtamonNakhtamun” – TT335, who is the son of the sculptor Ipuy and who owns the Tomb of Ipuy. “He worked as a sculptor in the era of King Ramses II, the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.” Among The Tombs of Deir Al-Madina, Tombs of The Nobles in Luxor “Thebes” | The Pharaonic Tombs from Thebes.

Where did ancient gold come from?

  • In fact, this archaeological map shows a large extension of 15 kilometers in the area of ​​Wadi Hammamat in Red sea, and it also contains a group of images that represent the confluence of that archaeological valley with the area of ​​the valley of Atallah and valley al-Sayyid, and with the difference between those natural hills surrounding it.
  • The upper part of that map is also located in the south direction and within the source of the Nile River. Not only that, but as it has been rebuilt again, currently in the Turin Museum area.
  • The distinctive length of this Ancient Egyptian Papyrus or archaeological map is about 2.8 meters, and its width is about 0.41 meters.
  • This is the proper order in which the parts of the map are expressed and which is already considered to be incorrect.

What is the oldest known topographic map?

  • In fact, in addition to being a topographical map, this Ancient Egyptian Papyrus represents that surprisingly modern side of the map.
  • But at the same time, it is also the most important and oldest geological map that history had ever known, as it succeeded in showing with great accuracy the local distribution of a group of different types of rocks with full of black hills and pink hills.
  • It also showed the various pebbles present in the valley and described them accurately from the stone point of view, as they were brown in color and a group of green and white points.
  • Ancient Egyptian Papyrus also contains very important information about quarries and mining.
  • The painter who was interested in drawing that postal or harika distributed the various of these distinguishing features with great clarity and extreme accuracy, in accordance with the reality and precisely with the reality of that particular region.

Papyrus in Ancient Egypt

Papyrus plant at the pharaohs | Facts and history of the most important plants used by the ancient Egyptians in the ancient civilization of Egypt to write on it three thousand years BC and more.

Ancient Egyptian Papyrus plant is a plant from which a substance similar to paper is made, but thicker. This plant was used in the past for writing on it and began to be used three thousand years BC, and the plant was used specifically for the manufacture of paper to know more about Agriculture in Ancient Egypt

  • The papyrus plant used to make paper was first known during the era of the First Egyptian Dynasty, and it was present across the Nile Delta.
  • Paper made from this plant did not come on individual images, but could be combined in rolls or side by side to form a book.
  • Ancient Egyptian Papyrus plant was used in the Mediterranean and the writing material differed from era to era.
  • The papyrus plant was not only used to make leaves, but was also used to make boats, mats, sandals and ropes.
  • The word “peper” is derived from the Latin word, including the Greek word papers, which means papyrus plant.

Who founded papyrus?

  • In the first century BC, animal skins were used for writing. Leather was a strong competitor to papyrus.
  • Papyrus was used in the manufacture of manuscripts, and Christians “Coptic period” were also among the users of papyrus in the manufacture of manuscripts.
  • The manuscripts are improvements to the papyrus scrolls.
  • Old Ancient Egyptian Papyrus was cheap because it was easy to make, but it was weak and exposed very easily to moisture and dryness.
  • After a while, papyrus was replaced by manuscripts and local parchment, and those alternatives were better because they were characterized by a higher durability than papyrus.
  • The last appearance of papyrus was in the Merovingian art and architecture in 692.
  • Papyrus was also used in 1057 BC in a Papal bull, and also in 1087.
  • The Islamic world “Islamic Egypt History” used less expensive paper but papyrus was still an option for a very long time.

What is the meaning of papyrologist? Papyrology

  • Since in the past the papyri were used to record the matters of the life of the ancient Egyptians, in the current era, history scholars have gone to study what is in those papyri.
  • From here began the science of papyri specialized in studying what was written in the papyri of literature, letters, law and other topics that came in the Ancient Egyptian Papyrus.
  • Papyrology includes translation of documents obtained, which were in multiple languages.
  • One of the most famous founders of this science is Joseph von Karabasek, a specialist in Arabic papyri.

 

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Papyrus plant at the pharaohs | Facts and history of the most important plants used by the ancient Egyptians
Papyrus plant at the pharaohs | Facts and history of the most important plants used by the ancient Egyptians

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