ANCIENT EGYPTIAN LITERATURE Estimated by experts of Egyptian archeology to have originated about 3000 BC , a body of known tales, in a form of short stories, extended in a period of time in that form until about 1400 BC , approximately 1500 years. These stories tell much about the life of the Egyptians of their time. Supernatural events which make up a large part of the plots give a fairy tale approach.- One, an anonymous manuscript on papyrus, …
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…hero being escorted to Royal Catacombs and the ground smoothed down over him. The magical nature of the stories would give an oppressed laborer a list of means he can only dream of where he could get even with his oppressors in his afterlife. A scribe with the ability to read could make a living as a teller of stories to the illiterate majority and such stories would be a fantasy escape from grim realities....