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Instruction for Merikare

ancient Egyptian text

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history of Egypt

  • Travel down the Nile to discover important ancient Egyptian cultural sites such as the Pyramids of Giza
    In ancient Egypt: The 12th dynasty (c. 1939–c. 1760 bce)

    …significant of these is the Instruction for Merikare, a discourse on kingship and moral responsibility. It is often used as a source for the history of the First Intermediate period but may preserve no more than a memory of its events. Most of these texts continued to be copied in…

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