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The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
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Ancient Egyptian literature has been preserved on a wide variety of media. This includes papyrus scrolls and packets, limestone or ceramic ostraca, wooden writing boards, monumental stone edifices and coffins. Texts preserved and unearthed by modern archaeologists represent a small fraction of ancient Egyptian literary material.
Joseph von Karabacek (1845–1918), a leading authority in the field of papyrology. Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt, often referred to as TAD or TADAE, is a four volume corpus of Aramaic inscriptions written in Egypt during the Ancient Egyptian period, written by Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni.
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Egyptian Museum of Berlin: P. Berlin 6619 Berlin: Germany Dramatic Ramesseum Papyrus: 20th R - Religious drama British Museum: P. BM EA 10610,2 London: UK Westcar Papyrus: 20th L - Tales of Magic: Egyptian Museum of Berlin: P. Berlin 3033 Berlin: Germany Heqanakht Papyri: 20th P - Private Correspondence of Heqanakht Metropolitan Museum of Art ...