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{{Quote|{{url=https://ia802907.us.archive.org/1/items/TheLiteratureOfAncientEgyptKellySimpsonBySamySalah/The%20Literature%20of%20Ancient%20Egypt%20-%20Kelly%20Simpson%20By%20Samy%20Salah.pdf title=Literature of Ancient Egypt : An Anthology of Stories, Instructions, Stelae, Autobiographies, and Poetry | |||
page=51}}|And then a star fell. | |||
And because of it these went up in fire. | |||
It happened utterly.}} | |||
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'the unknown Egyptian author of ‘The Shipwrecked Sailor’ (c. 2000 BC), which recounts a series of fantastic adventures, including surviving something resembling a cosmic impact: Then a star fell. And because of it these went up in fire. It happened utterly. (Source = William Kelly Simpson, ed., The Literature of Ancient Egypt (Cairo, 2003), p. 51. For a discussion of a theoretically catastrophic impact in ancient Egypt, see Aly Barakat, ‘Did the Kamil Meteorite Fall Contribute to the Downfall of the Old Kingdom?’, The Ostracon: Journal of the Egyptian) | 'the unknown Egyptian author of ‘The Shipwrecked Sailor’ (c. 2000 BC), which recounts a series of fantastic adventures, including surviving something resembling a cosmic impact: Then a star fell. And because of it these went up in fire. It happened utterly. (Source = William Kelly Simpson, ed., The Literature of Ancient Egypt (Cairo, 2003), p. 51. For a discussion of a theoretically catastrophic impact in ancient Egypt, see Aly Barakat, ‘Did the Kamil Meteorite Fall Contribute to the Downfall of the Old Kingdom?’, The Ostracon: Journal of the Egyptian) |
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