The Complete List of Ancient Egyptian Papyri
WARNING! Primary Evidence Overload! Whether to fill your curiosity or help with your research, this list is some of the wisest answers to some of our deepest questions. Famous for writing in stone, ancient Egyptians also turned the pith of the Cyperus papyrus plant into scrolls of papyri (paper).
Even with the advantage of the most primary evidence still existing. We still have to work through pictures, translations, fakes, biases, literary fiction works, human mistakes, ancient propaganda, cognitive dissonance, etc.
Contrary to what many believe, the area of information with the most mysterious, naturally covered up, purposely hidden information that we know of, is of ancient Egypt. Research with diligence family.
At its most basic definition, Ancient Egypt is a term that we now use to describe a specific location. At the time it was actually called “Kemet”. The borders were much larger but it’s in the same place that we call Egypt today. Kemet means “black land”. Kem means “black”, and is the origin of the “chem” in chemical, chemistry, and alchemist.
Artifacts and writings have been in broad-face as well as hidden within the sands in Egypt. In fact, Ancient Kemet has the largest and oldest collection of ancient artifacts and writings. Just imagine what the world’s best-preserving element, salt (sand), has preserved deep in the deserts of North Africa.
And almost as if intentional, the sand-preserved artifacts so happen to speak on some of the largest and deepest questions that we have today as humans. It is also something that has been to this day part of a massive suppression of the information. Why? A lot of the information that we find in ancient writings contradicts much of what we have been taught in modern times in regards to history, religion, and science.
Of course just because it’s the oldest doesn’t mean it’s true, that goes for everything. But what we can do is stack the evidence.
Interesting Facts about Ancient Egypt
Digging into Ancient Kemet can be fun, but it can also cause a paradigm shift, here are some interesting facts you will learn along your journey.
- Ancient Egyptian Papyri inspired most religious texts
- Still one of the sunniest places in the world. summer is March through November.
- Women had equal rights and sometimes served as “King”. (a title for male or female ruler. “Queen originates from the the “kings whore”)
- Incest was rare outside of royalty and mythology until after european invasion (family words have been interpreted loosely)
- Ancient Egyptians were mostly vegan with minimum teeth cavities.
- Most Pyramids were not “tombs”.
- Pyramids were built by well paid skilled Kemetic builders, architects, and mathematicians. Not Slaves.
- They practiced polygyny and pre-nuptials and no homosexuality until after european invasion.
- The Great Pyramid has 8 sides, not 4, no hieroglyphics, and no mummy.
- Ancient Egyptian were not polytheists. they believe in a “one, omnipresent, everything is god” concept. Their personifications and animorphocations of nature got mistranslated to gods
- They Travelled the globe by air and sea.
- The lost Egyptian city of Heracleion was found 320 feet underwater.
- They had very high hygiene standards relative to their time.
- Ancient Kemetians depicted themselves as medium and dark brown skin with black coils hair.
- They had electricity, possibly wirelessly
- Much of what we are just now discovering with modern technology in physics and astronomy, somehow they already knew.
The list could keep going. Here is where we give you some primary evidence. It’s not always the best place to start. but it is often requested.
This is not an exhaustive list yet. and papyri are constantly being found, bought, names, sold, lost and destroyed. But this list will continue to grow.
The Elephantine Papyri consist of 175 documents from the Egyptian border fortresses of Elephantine and Syene (Aswan), which yielded hundreds of papyri in Hieratic and Demotic Egyptian, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, and Coptic, spanning a period of 2000 years.
Here are some of the other popular Ancient Kemetic Papyri, written hieroglyphs (MDU NTR), hieratic, demotic or in Greek. We will be delving more into these in posts to come. Be sure you’re subscribed if you’re not already.
Let’s get into it. This list is by no means exhaustive, but the vision for this list is that it will grow as new ancient papri are continuously being uncovered. The plan is to also continuously be providing more updated and useful reference links.
List of Ancient Egyptian Papyri
Name | Date: Century BCE |
Content Type | Content | Location: Institution | City | Country |
Wadi al-Jarf Papyri | 26th | Official Records | About pyramid construction | Egyptian Museum in Cairo | Cairo | Egypt |
Dryton and Apollonia Archive | Ptolemaic | Private Correspondence | Family papers | |||
Abusir Papyri | 25th or later | Official Records | About Neferirkare Kakai | |||
Moscow Mathematical Papyrus | 21st | Science / Math / Medical | Mathematical problems and solutions | Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts | Moscow | Russia |
Berlin Papyrus | 21st or later | Science / Math / Medical | Medical and mathematical topics | Berlin | Germany | |
Westcar Papyrus | 20th | Literary Texts | Tales of Magic | Ägyptisches Museum | Berlin | Germany |
Heqanakht papyri | 20th | Private Correspondence | Private Correspondence of Heqanakht | Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York City | USA |
Papyrus Hermitage 1116A Papyrus Moscow, Papyrus Carlsberg 6 |
20th or later | Official Records | Instruction of Merikare | |||
P. Leningrad 1115 | 20th or later | Literary Texts | Tale of the shipwrecked sailor | Moscow | Russia | |
Prisse Papyrus | 20th or later | Teaching and Instruction | Instruction addressed to Kagemni The Maxims of Ptahhotep |
Bibliothèque Nationale | Paris | France |
Papyrus Berlin 3023 Papyrus Berlin 3025 Papyrus Berlin 10499 |
20th or later | Literary Texts | The Eloquent Peasant | Berlin | Germany | |
Papyrus Butler 527 | 20th or later | Literary Texts | The Eloquent Peasant | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Berlin 3024 | 20th or later | Literary Texts | L – Dispute between a man and his Ba, Herdsman’s Tale | Berlin | Germany | |
Hearst Papyrus | 20th or later | Science / Math / Medical | Medical Texts | U of Cal-Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | United States |
Rhind Mathematical Papyrus | 19th or later | Science / Math / Medical | Mathematical problems and solutions | British Museum | London | UK |
Kahun Papyri | 19th | Science / Math / Medical | Mathematical and medical topics | University College | London | UK |
Papyrus Berlin 3022 | 19th | Literary Texts | Story of Sinuhe | Berlin | Germany | |
Ramesseum medical papyri | 18th | Science / Math / Medical | Medical texts | |||
Papyrus Boulaq 18 | 18th | Official Records | Palace administration | Egypt | Cairo | |
London Medical Papyrus | 18th | Science / Math / Medical | Medical texts | British Museum | London | UK |
Reisner Papyrus | 18th | Official Records | Official records | |||
Ipuwer Papyrus | 17th | Teaching and Instruction | The Admonitions of Ipuwer | Rijksmuseum van Oudheden | Leiden | Netherlands |
Papyrus Golenischeff | 17th | Hymn to the Red Crown | ||||
Edwin Smith Papyrus | 16th or earlier | Science / Math / Medical | Medical Texts | NY Academy of Medicine | New York City | United States |
Ebers Papyrus | 16th | Science / Math / Medical | Medical Texts | University of Leipzig | Leipzig | Germany |
Turin Erotic Papyrus | 16th or later | Unknown | Animal and erotic cartoons | Turin | Italy | |
Millingen Papyrus (now lost) | 16th or later | Teaching and Instruction | Instructions of Amenemhat | |||
Papyrus of Ani | 13th or later | Teaching and Instruction | F – Book of the Dead | Cairo Museum | Cairo | Egypt |
Turin King List | 13th | Official Records | Kinglist | Museo Egizio | Turin | Italy |
Papyrus Sallier II | 13th or later | Teaching and Instruction | The Satire of the Trades | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Anastasi I | 13th or later | Teaching and Instruction | Satirical letter | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Harris I | 12th | Official Records | Lists of endowments | British Museum | London | UK |
Judicial Papyrus of Turin | 12th | Official Records | Report on the Harem conspiracy against Ramesses III | |||
Papyrus Harris 500 | 12th or later | Literary Texts | Story and Poems | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Pushkin I | 12th or later | Literary Texts | Moscow literary letter | |||
Turin Papyrus | 12th | Map | Map | Museo Egizio | Turin | Italy |
Abbott Papyrus | 12th | Official Records | Investigation of crimes | |||
Leopold II and Amherst Papyrus | 12th | Official Records | Investigation of crimes | Musée d’arts | Brussels | Belgium |
Mayer Papyri | 12th | Official Records | Investigation of crimes | |||
Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus | 12th | Science / Math / Medical | Medical texts | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus British Museum 10474 | 12th | Teaching and Instruction | Instructions of Amenemopet | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Lansing | 12th | Teaching and Instruction | Schoolbook | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Chester Beatty IV | 12th | Teaching and Instruction | The Immortality of Writers | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus D’Orbiney | 12th | Literary Texts | Tale of Two Brothers | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Chester Beatty II | 12th | Literary Texts | Tale of Truth and Falsehood | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Chester Beatty I | 12th | Literary Texts | Love poetry Contention between Horus and Seth |
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Greenfield papyrus | 11th | Teaching and Instruction | F – Book of the Dead | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Moscow 120 | 11th or later | Literary Texts | Story of Wenamun | |||
Papyrus Hood | 10th | Wordlist | Onomasticon of Amenope | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Berlin 3048 | 08th | Private Correspondence | Marriage contract | Berlin | Germany | |
Papyrus Rylands 9 | 06th | Private Correspondence | The petition of Pediese | John Rylands Library | Manchester | UK |
Brooklyn Papyrus | 04th or later | Science / Math / Medical | Medical texts | Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn | United States |
Papyrus Bremner–Rhind | 04th | Literary Texts | The Songs of Isis and Nephthys. | British Museum | London | UK |
British Museum Papyrus 10508 | 04th or later | Teaching and Instruction | Instruction of Ankhsheshonq | British Museum | London | UK |
Papyrus Berlin 3008 | 04th or later | Literary Texts | The Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys | Berlin | Germany | |
Cairo Museum Papyrus No. 30646 | 04th or later | Literary Texts | Setne I | Cairo Museum | Cairo | Egypt |
Cairo Museum Papyrus No. 30692 | 04th or later | Literary Texts | Setne I | Cairo Museum | Cairo | Egypt |
Vienna Demotic Papyrus 6165 | 04th or later | Literary Texts | Story-cycle of King Petubastis | Vienna | Austria | |
Leiden Demotic Papyrus I 384 | 04th or later | Literary Texts | The Myth of the Eye of the Sun | |||
Papyrus Milbank | 04th or later | Transitioning | Book of the Dead | Oriental Institute | Chicago | USA |
Milan Papyrus | 03rd or later | Literary Texts | Poetry in Greek | University of Milan | Milan | Italy |
Carlsberg Papyri | 02nd and later | Scientific, Mathematical, Medical | Medical texts | University of Copenhagen | Copenhagen | Denmark |
Insinger Papyrus | 02nd or later | Teaching and Instruction | Instruction of Papyrus Insinger | Leiden | Netherlands | |
British Museum Papyrus 604. | 01st or later | Literary Texts | Setne II | British Museum | London | UK |
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