Wente describes the " Satirical Letter " found on the Papyrus Anastasi I of the Nineteenth Dynasty as an epistle which was commonly copied as a writing exercise by Egyptian schoolchildren on ceramic ostraca ( over eighty examples of which have been found so far by archaeologists ).

During the New Kingdom ( ca 1550 – 1070 BC ) mathematical problems are mentioned in the literary Papyrus Anastasi I, and the Papyrus Wilbour from the time of Ramesses III records land measurements.

* The Papyrus Anastasi I is a literary text from the New Kingdom.

Papyrus Anastasi IV, written several centuries later, also refers to copper ( as well as cows ) sent from Alashiya to Egypt.

Historical papyri are given identifying names — generally the name of the discoverer, first owner or institution where they are kept — and numbered, such as " Papyrus Harris I ".

An additional Egyptian source, Papyrus Harris I, records how the defeated foe were brought in captivity to Egypt and settled in fortresses.

Papyrus Harris I details the achievements of the reign of Ramses III.

Another was composed in the period immediately following the death of Ramses III ( Papyrus Harris I ).

In the text of Papyrus Bologna, the harried Pra ' em-hab laments undue taxation for his own temple ( The House of Seth ) and goes on to lament that he is also saddled with responsibility for: " the ship, and I am likewise also responsible for the House of Nephthys, along with the remaining heap of district temples ".

In the Papyrus of Ani copy of the Egyptian Book of the Dead the scribe proclaims " I am thy writing palette, O Thoth, and I have brought unto thee thine ink-jar.

The Great Harris Papyrus or Papyrus Harris I, which was commissioned by his son and chosen successor Ramesses IV, chronicles this king's vast donations of land, gold statues and monumental construction to Egypt's various temples at Piramesse, Heliopolis, Memphis, Athribis, Hermopolis, This, Abydos, Coptos, El Kab and other cities in Nubia and Syria.

Papyrus Harris I records some of Ramesses III activities:

* Papyrus Leiden I. 350, which dates to the 52nd year of Ramesses II, records a lunar observation which places that year of Ramesses ' reign in one of 1278, 1253, 1228 or 1203 BC within the date-range of the conventional chronology.

* Irsu the Syrian, who took over control of Egypt according to the Harris Papyrus, with Arza, Master of the Palace of Israel according to I Kings 16: 8-10.

According to Egyptologists, facsimile No. 1 and Facsimile No. 3 are part of the Scroll of Hor, which contained Joseph Smith Papyrus I, X and XI.

His reign is best known for the Year 16 tomb robberies, recorded in the Abbott Papyrus, the Leopold II-Amherst Papyrus and the Mayer Papyri, when several royal and noble tombs in the Western Theban necropolis were found to have been robbed, including that of a 17th Dynasty king, Sobekemsaf I. Paser, Mayor of Eastern Thebes or Karnak, accused his subordinate Paweraa, the Mayor of West Thebes responsible for the safety of the necropolis, of being either culpable in this wave of robberies or negligent in his duties of protecting the Valley of the Kings from incursions by tomb robbers.

The most important document to survive from this pharaoh's rule is Papyrus Harris I, which honours the life of his father, Ramesses III, by listing the latter's many accomplishments and gifts to the temples of Egypt, and the Turin papyrus, the earliest known geologic map.

The beginning of the Great Harris Papyrus or Papyrus Harris I, which documents the reign of Ramesses III, provides some details about Setnakhte's rise to power.

Papyrus Harris I is also known as the Great Harris Papyrus and ( less accurately ) simply the Harris Papyrus ( though there are a number of other papyri in the Harris collection ).

Papyrus was documented as in use as late as the 12th century in the Byzantine Empire, but examples have survived.

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Papyrus flowers in late summer, and prefers full sun to partly shady conditions.

Another argument made for the late dating of Thomas is based upon the fact that Saying 5 in the original Greek ( Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 654 ) seems to follow the vocabulary used in the gospel according to Luke (), and not the vocabulary used in the gospel according to Mark ().

The Milan Papyrus is a papyrus roll inscribed in Alexandria in the late 3rd or early 2nd century BC during the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

Sermont's promotion would thus mean that BM 9997 postdates the House-list Papyrus and must be placed late in the Renaissance period.

Dave Kaemmer left Papyrus in late 2002, just before the release of NASCAR Racing 2003 Season ( NR2003 ).

* Papyrus Hermitage 1116A, late Dynasty 18

* Papyrus Moscow, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts 4658, late Dynasty 18

* Papyrus Carlsberg 6, late Dynasty 18

The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, which records a fragment of this gospel, is usually dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

Some of these fragments have even been thought to date as early as the 2nd century ( i. e., Papyrus 90, Papyrus 98, Papyrus 104, and famously Rylands Library Papyrus P52, though the early date of the latter has recently been called into question ).

The oldest extant manuscripts of the Masoretic Text date from approximately the 9th century CE, and the Aleppo Codex ( once the oldest complete copy of the Masoretic Text, but now missing its Torah section ) dates from the 10th century. The Nash Papyrus ( 2nd century BCE ) contains a portion of a pre-Masoretic Text, specifically the Ten Commandments and the Shema Yisrael prayer.

The earliest extant fragment of the New Testament is the Rylands Library Papyrus P52, a piece of the Gospel of John dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

The earliest fragment of a New Testament book is the Rylands Library Papyrus P52 which dates to the mid 2nd century and is the size of a business card.

The Egerton Gospel ( British Library Egerton Papyrus 2 ) refers to a group of papyrus fragments of a codex of a previously unknown gospel, found in Egypt and sold to the British Museum in 1934 ; the physical fragments are now dated to the very end of the 2nd century AD, although the date of composition is less clear – perhaps 50-100 AD.

The verses included in < sup > 52 </ sup > are also witnessed in Bodmer Papyrus < sup > 66 </ sup > – usually dated to the beginning of the 3rd century CE – there is also some overlap with < sup > 60 </ sup > and < sup > 90 </ sup > of the 7th and 2nd centuries respectively.

Most of the above is called into question by Rylands Library Papyrus P52 which contains a fragment from John chapter 18 dated with a fair measure of confidence to the first half of the 2nd century.

1294, also known as the Alexander Papyrus ) is a fragment of 2nd century Greek manuscript of an unknown romance.

Papyrus was first manufactured in Egypt as far back as the third millennium BC.

The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, written in the 17th century BC, contains the earliest recorded reference to the brain

Medical information in the Edwin Smith Papyrus may date to a time as early as 3000 BC.

The Edwin Smith Papyrus is regarded as a copy of several earlier works and was written c. 1600 BC.

The most ancient mathematical texts available are Plimpton 322 ( Babylonian mathematics c. 1900 BC ), the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus ( Egyptian mathematics c. 2000-1800 BC ) and the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus ( Egyptian mathematics c. 1890 BC ).

Papyrus scrolls comprised the collection, and although codices were used after 300 BC, the Alexandrian Library is never documented as having switched to parchment, perhaps because of its strong links to the papyrus trade.

The Milan Papyrus, recovered from a dismantled mummy casing and published in 2001, has revealed the high esteem in which the poet Posidippus of Pella, an important composer of epigrams ( 3rd century BC ), held Sappho's " divine songs ".

For a real example of the unary system in ancient mathematics, see the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, dating from circa 1800 BC.

* 1674 BC — Ipuwer Papyrus written.

* c. 1650 BC — The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus is produced.

Very early examples are Epic of Gilgamesh, in its Sumerian version predating 2000 BC, and the Egyptian Book of the Dead written down in the Papyrus of Ani in approximately 1250 BC but probably dates from about the 18th century BC.

The 110-page Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical papyrus which dates to roughly 1550 BC, also makes reference to the tracheotomy.

* 1800 BC – Moscow Mathematical Papyrus

* 1650 BC – Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

Ancient Egyptian pharmacological knowledge was recorded in various papyri such as the Ebers Papyrus of 1550 BC, and the Edwin Smith Papyrus of the 16th century BC.