Overview of the locations of the different findings around the Abusir necropolisThe unfinished Pyramid of Neferefre at Abusir
The Abusir Papyri are the largest papyrus findings to date from the Old Kingdom in ancient Egypt.[1][2] The first papyri were discovered in 1893 at Abu Gorab near Abusir in northern Egypt. Their origins are dated to around the 24th century BC during the Fifth dynasty of Egypt, making them, even though often badly fragmented, among some of the oldest surviving papyri to date.[3] Later on, a large number of additional manuscript fragments were discovered in the area.
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The AbusirPapyri are the largest papyrus findings to date from the Old Kingdom in ancient Egypt. The first papyri were discovered in 1893 at Abu Gorab...
their own funerary monuments. Abusir was the origin of the largest find of Old Kingdom papyri to date — the AbusirPapyri. In the late nineteenth century...
also significant because its excavation led to the discovery of the AbusirPapyri. The Fifth Dynasty marked the end of the great pyramid constructions...
This list of papyri from ancient Egypt includes some of the better known individual papyri written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic or in ancient Greek...
his mortuary complex and elsewhere in Abusir, such as clay seals bearing his Horus name. Some of the AbusirPapyri discovered in Khentkhaus II's temple...
source of information about Egypt during the reign of Djedkare is the Abusirpapyri. These are administrative documents, covering a period of 24 years during...
"disc", and later "sun disc", is first found in the 24th century BC AbusirPapyri, discovered in the mortuary temple of the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Neferirkare...
ritual slaughter of animals as offerings for the mortuary cult. The AbusirPapyri preserve an event where 130 bulls were slaughtered during a ten-day...
Egyptian Antiquities. Neferirkare's Pyramid at Abusir is the largest structure in the region. The AbusirPapyri of Neferirkare mentions at least four boats...
false door of Ptahshepses, Saqqara (2440 BC) AbusirPapyri, some of the oldest papyri from ancient Egypt, Abusir (2400 BC) Wooden tomb statue of Tjeti, 5th...
king's mother Khentkaus II is mentioned in the AbusirPapyri. Khentkaus II had a pyramid complex in Abusir next to the pyramid complex of her husband Neferirkare...
and the causeway is not aligned with the axis of the high temple. The AbusirPapyri, a collection of administrative documents from later in the Fifth Dynasty...
be found as far back as the Early Dynastic Period. The Old Kingdom AbusirPapyri are a particularly important corpus of texts that utilize hieratic numerals...
Egypt, today in Giza, Egypt. It includes the pyramid complexes of Giza, Abusir, Saqqara and Dahshur, and is listed as the UNESCO World Heritage Site of...
of those wonders still in existence. This site, halfway between Giza and Abusir, is the location for two unfinished Old Kingdom pyramids. The northern structure's...
administrative papyri, known as the Abusirpapyri, was uncovered there by illegal diggers in 1893 and subsequently by Borchardt in 1903. Further papyri were also...
However, some major witnesses have survived. Such is the case of the AbusirPapyri, which is a collection of inventories, lists and decrees dating from...
the large sun temples built at Abusir throughout the dynasty, a tradition initiated by Userkaf. Finally, the AbusirPapyri demonstrate the strong connection...
king's five names, but the AbusirPapyri, discovered in the nearby pyramid of Neferirkare, indicate otherwise. The papyri identify that the central statue...
papyrus-fragment of his Persians (one of the oldest Greek papyri in existence), discovered at Abusir has been edited by U. von Wilamowitz-Mollendorff (1903)...
World Heritage Site, inscribed in 1979. The pyramid fields include the Abusir, Saqqara, and Dahshur pyramid complexes, which were all built in the vicinity...
ceased to be the royal necropolis. The Abusir Papyri record evidence indicating that the funerary cults at Abusir remained active at least until the reign...
1902–05 he conducted a series of significant excavations of the necropolis at Abusir el-Meleq. While in Egypt, he also performed excavatory work at Fayum, at...
Charles University in Prague began investigating a second large shaft tomb at Abusir in Egypt. In 1996, they located a burial chamber at the bottom of the shaft...
homonymous nome was located on the shores of this lake. The seaside town of Abusir, known in ancient times as Taposiris Magna, lies on the shore of Lake Mariout...
Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions and papyri, including many related to medical matters (Egyptian medical papyri). The resultant interest in Egyptology...
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