The Full Account: 008 The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep — Origins

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What the oldest surviving secular wisdom text actually says — and what it reveals about the world of the Old Kingdom Egyptian bureaucratic elite that the compressed label 'ancient wisdom literature' consistently obscures.

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