The purpose of this volume of translations is to provide the nonspecialist and general reader with a broad selection of letters written during the major periods of pharaonic history from the Old Kingdom to the Twenty-first Dynasty. The letters that have survived from this span of nearly a millennium and a half were written by a fairly wide range of people, including the king, his high officials, lesser bureaucrats, priests, army officers, necropolis workmen, and landholders. There are as well a number of letters from women, or to women.

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