Egyptian literature traces its beginnings to ancient Egypt and is some of the earliest known literature. Indeed, the Egyptians were the first culture to develop literature as we know it today, that is, the book.

6. IN EGYPT, MEN AND WOMEN OF
EQUIVALENT SOCIAL STATUS WERE
TREATED AS EQUALS IN THE EYES OF
THE LAW. This meant that women could
own, earn, buy, sell and inherit
property. They could live unprotected
by male guardians and, if widowed or
divorced, could raise their own children.
They could bring cases before, and be
punished by, the law courts. And they
were expected to deputise for an absent
husband in matters of business.
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7. The Egyptian flag is similar to the
flags of Syria, Iraq, and Yemen and
consists of three bands of colors
from the Arab Liberation flag—
red, white, and black—with the
golden eagle of Saladin on the
white band. On the Egyptian flag,
black represents oppression, red
represents the bloody struggle
against oppression, and white is
symbolic of a bright future.

8. The ancient Egyptians
worshipped more than
1,000 different gods and
goddesses. The most
important god of all was
Ra, the sun god.

9. The oldest dress in the
world comes from Egypt.
It is 5,000 years old.
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10. The garment,
known as the
Tarkhan dress, is a
find of surpassing
rarity. Few pieces
of early clothing,
which made from
plant fibers or
animal skins,
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17. CANNIBAL TEXT
IMPORTANT TEXT WERE THE
FOLLOWING:
PYRAMID TEXT
PROVERB OF PTAHOTEP

18. POPULAR TEXTS:
-TALE OF SINUHE
-SHIPWRECKED SAILOR
-KING CHEOPS AND THE MAGICIANS

19. FAMOUS STORIES:
-THE STORY OF KING APOHIS AND SEKENENRE
-VOYAGE OF WENAMON
-THE TALE OF TWO BROTHERS

20. POPULAR STORIES:
-THE LAMENTATIONS OF ISIS
-NEPTHYS AND SETNA
-THE MAGIC BOOK

21. Demotic script (‘Popular writing')

23. Pyr
-In Egypt the earliest body text that
can be called literature and comprises
series of hymns and spells sculptured
on the walls of chambers in the
pyramid (Pyramid Texts)

24. Pyr
-Maxims belong to the genre of
didactic.
True or fictional, but they generally
consist of a narrative, with a beginning
and an end, made more interesting
and exciting with vivid details.

25. PTAHHOTEP in hieroglyphs
Ptahhotep ("Peace of Ptah")
Ptahhotep’s instruction was written as
advice to his people in the hopes of
maintaining this said "social order". He
wrote perspicacious advice covering
topics from TABLE MANNERS and
PROPER CONDUCT FOR SUCCESS in court
circles to handy hints to the husband for
PRESERVING HIS WIFE’S BEAUTY

26. Pyr
undesirable outcome is anticipated
from a given literature
THE DISPUTE BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS BA
is considered the oldest text
on suicide in the world.

27. The piece presents a conversation
between a narrator and his soul on
the difficulties of life and how one is
supposed to live in it. The soul tries
to console the man by reminding
him of the good things in life, the
goodness of the gods, and how he
should enjoy life while he can
because he will be dead soon
enough.

28. Pyr
Deals as an intense emotional
experience felt by all. Egyptian love
poems, recovered from pieces of
papyrus and fragments of a vase. They
date from the period between 1,500
and 1,000 BC.

31. The words for this song are from an ancient
Egyptian papyrus scroll, written in a formalized
version of the language of the New Kingdom
(roughly 1500 B.C.). This was the era of some of
Egypt's most famous pharaohs, including
Tutankhamun, Queen Hatshepsut and the
notorious "heretic king" Akenaten and his wife
Queen Nefertiti. The song itself is written in
several parts as a dialog between a young man
and the girl he loves. This is the first part of it
sung by the young man. Although he refers to the
girl as "sister", she is not his actual sister. It was
common for people in those days, as it is in some
places today, to refer to one another as "brother"
and "sister" when they belonged to the same
community.

32. Pyr"Poetry is perhaps the greatest forgotten treasure
of ancient Egypt," said Richard Parkinson, an expert
on ancient Egyptian poetry at London's British
Museum.
While historical accounts and biographies inscribed
on the insides of tombs often give idealized
accounts of ancient Egyptian life, poetry gives real
insight into human nature and its imperfections

34. GROUP 1
Enumerate the reasons
why the author distrust
his fellowmen.

35. GROUP 2
•Today, Do we have to
trust or distrust our
fellowmen? Support
your answer .

36. •What is the theme of the
poem?
•What is the moral lesson of
the poem?

38. Make an informative skit in
how to fight some evils in
our society and the
corresponding remedies to
those problems.

39. Skit Rubric