Prisse Papyrus

The Prisse Papyrus is an ancient Egyptian manuscript, more than seven meters long, written in an abbreviated hieratic script and sometimes called the oldest complete book to survive from antiquity. It preserves two works of wisdom literature, the Instructions of Kagemni and the Maxims of Ptahhotep, likely composed in the late Old Kingdom or early Middle Kingdom, roughly around 2000 BC. French Egyptologist Emile Prisse d'Avennes acquired the scroll in Cairo in 1843, reporting that it had been taken from excavations he was carrying out near Thebes, and he later gave it to the Bibliotheque nationale de France, where it remains, publishing a facsimile of the text. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/