The whole papyrus ... Rhind Mathematical Papyrus would have cost two copper deben, about the same as a small goat. So this is an object for the well-off. But why would you spend so much money on a ...

A remarkably large number of papyri from antiquity have survived, including the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus which is almost 4,000 years old. There are several reasons why papyrus documents have ...

The Book of the Dead. Facsimiles of the Papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kersher and Netchemet, with Supplementary Text from the Papyrus of Nu, with Transcripts, Translations, &c. By E. A. Wallis Budge ...

Eric Peet's handsome and in every respect admirable edition of the Rhind Papyrus appeared in 1923 ... der ägyptischen Arithmetik” (1929), a book of 208 pages, which deals mainly with the ...