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What are the best reads from the Bronze Age?

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>>16616882
Why yes, I do read Sumerian grain ledgers, how did you know?

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>>16616882
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Story of Sinuhe
The Old Testament (Bronze and Iron Age)

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>>16616939
kek

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John L. Foster (not a translator) has nice collections of most Egyptian scripture.
>Ancient Egyptian Literature: An Anthology
>Hymns, Prayers, and Songs: An Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Lyric Poetry
Then James P. Allen if you want the most accurate translations. He has translated all the Pyramid Texts.

The sad thing is that the best Egyptian texts (Coffin Texts and Leyden Papyrus) are really outdated or flawed, Faulkner was a translator but had zero aptitude for actual higher noetic thinking, any superficial paradoxes were just automatically discarded by him and revised into words that made sense to his small mind. Like "chaos gods" instead of the more literal "infinite ones".