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Show Notes
The Sixth Dynasty, and its wisdom. Around 2380 BCE, King Teti inaugurated the Sixth Dynasty of Egyptian rulers. Teti married into the royal family and began a new (male) bloodline. This period was creatively fertile, producing famous works like the Wisdom Texts of Ptah-Hotep and Kagemni...
- Date c.2380 - 2360 BCE.
- Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
- The Teaching of Ptah-Hotep in English translation and Egyptian transliteration at UCL.ac.uk.
- The Teaching of Kagemni, translated by Miriam Lichtheim, at Academia.edu. Egyptian hieroglyphs at Rutgers.edu.
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- Music by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.com.
Select Bibliography:
- Naguib Kanawait (et al.) The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, Multiple Volumes.
- Naguib Kanawati, Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace, 2011.
- Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms, 1973 (2006 paperback edition).
- Nigel Strudwick, Texts from the Pyramid Age, 2005 (Google Books).
- William Kelly Simpson (editor), The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2003.
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