Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms » (2nd Edition)

For thirty years Miriam Lichtheim was Near East Bibliographer and Lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles. She retired in 1974 to devote herself to Egyptological research and later moved to Jerusalem where she taught at Hebrew University. She died in 2004. Antonio Lopriano is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Praise for the first editions:

"Concise, lucid, and altogether interesting . . ..The notes on the individual texts are unfailingly illuminating."—Books Abroad (now World Literature Today)