Egyptian Texts in Translation


Creation

Egyptian Creation Myth translated by E.A. Budge 1912

Khepera Creation Myth comments on bowdlerization and presentism

 

Codes of Behavior

The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep from the Ancient Sourcebook. (Egypt 6th dynasty 2300-2150 BCE)

 

Political Texts

Treaty of Peace Between Rameses II and the Hittites, translated by C. W. Goodwin, in Records of the Past, being English Translations of the Assyrian and Egyptian Monuments, vol. 4.

Inscription of Queen Hatasu (Hatshepsut) on the Base of the Great Obilisk of Karnak, tr. P. Le Page Renouf, in Records of the Past.

Excerpts from an account of the Battle of Kadesh between the Egyptians and the Hittites during the Time of Rameses II Excerpts from Gaston C. C. Maspero, Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria.

The Invasion of Egypt by the Sea Peoples in the Reign of Rameses II. in "The Invasion of Egypt by the Greeks under the XIXth Dynasty in the Reign of Menephtah" translated by S. Birch, in Records of the Past. Warning this is very fragmented, but worth a look nonetheless.

 

 


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