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name: Miriam Lichtheim
about: Miriam Lichtheim was an Israeli translator of ancient Egyptian texts whose translations are still widely used.In 1973 she published the first volume of the Ancient Egyptian Literature (abbr. AEL), annotated translations of Old and Middle Kingdom texts. In 1976 the second volume of AEL containing New Kingdom texts appeared, followed in 1980 by the third dealing with the first millennium BCE literature.