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Dylan Black's avatar

This is an excellent article! I don’t know if you know this, but many of your quotations of Egyptian texts are the same as some of the exercises in James Hoch’s Middle Egyptian Grammar. The poem about death was one of the trickier translation exercises for me.

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Ashwin Sharma, MD's avatar

Thank you Dylan! I did not know that... that's pretty fasincating. By the way, I've just released my new article on ancient china :) Here's the link https://ancientmadness.substack.com/p/ancient-chinese-scholars-understood?r=f3vj5&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Anil Sharma's avatar

Well researched and written.

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Ashwin Sharma, MD's avatar

Thank you, Anil!

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Dipla Malhotra's avatar

Intresting read with logical comparisons. Well written and explained.

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Ashwin Sharma, MD's avatar

Thank you for your feedback!

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Ashwin Sharma, MD's avatar

Thank you!

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