LITERATURE

Tale of SINUHE and the Shipwrecked Sailor



Tale of Sinuhe and the Shipwrecked Sailor

We understand only very old Egyptian tales (as opposed to very old Egyptian laments, instructions, prayers and the like) and even less of those have come down to us in entire form. "The Tale of Sinuhe" though has been maintained in more exact replicates than any other work from that period. It was evidently popular in those vintage times. And no wonder.

"The Tale of Sinuhe" is the very old Egyptian story that arrives nearest to what later would become epics or, in recent times, novels. While "The Shipwrecked Sailor" ...