Urkunden des Alten Reichs
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
documents written in Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian hieroglyphs were a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that combined logographic and alphabetic elements. Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood...
edited by German
Germans
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Egyptologist Kurt Heinrich Sethe
Kurt Heinrich Sethe
Kurt Heinrich Sethe was a noted German Egyptologist and philologist from Berlin. He was a student of Adolf Erman...
. Urkunden des Alten Reichs is the first book in the Urkunden des ægyptischen Altertums
Urkunden des Ægyptischen Altertums
The Urkunden des ægyptischen Altertums is a series of eight books composed of autographed transcriptions of hieroglyphic documents from ancient Egypt.-Volumes:* I. Urkunden des Alten Reichs, “Documents from the Old Kingdom”...
series, and translates as "Documents from the Old Kingdom
Old Kingdom
Old Kingdom is the name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley .The term itself was...
." It is typically called Urkunden I and cited as Urk. I in academic literature.
Urkunden I contains 308 pages, comprising 179 documents, dating to the Old Kingdom period. The hieroglyphic text is autograph
Autograph
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