num_pages: 336
description: These new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1938-1640 BC), and include the masterpiece of Egyptian poetry, The Tale of Sinuhe . An introduction and notes explain historical details, and offer for the firsttime a literary reading, to enable these poems to entertain and instruct, as they did their original audiences three-and-a-half thousand years ago.
language: English
title: The Tale of Sinuhe: and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
titlecomplete: The Tale of Sinuhe: and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C.
genres: Egypt, Poetry, Egyptian Literature, Ancient, Literature, Egyptology, Classics, Mythology, Africa, History
ratings_count: 360
publisher: Oxford University Press