Claim: The Tale of the Doomed Prince a story dating to the 18th Dynasty (first dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt) starts with the king of Egypt being very sad that a son had not yet been born to him and as such prays to the God for the birth of a son.
Evidence: The "Tale of the Doomed Prince" is an ancient Egyptian story, dating to the 18th Dynasty, written in hieratic text, which survived partially on the verso of Papyrus Harris 500 currently housed in the British Museum. The Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XVIII, alternatively 18th Dynasty or Dynasty 18) is classified as the first dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power. The story goes as follows: The king of Egypt was very sad that a son had not yet been born to him. The king prays to the gods, and that night his wife conceives a child.