The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids Landscape Gaunt-faced figures with icicle crowns

Gaunt-faced figures with icicle crowns and frost-rimmed cheekbones march from the north through an endless winter

beginning with the nineteenth-century excavations by Heinrich Schliemann

and visit across the country

seien es historische Plakate oder packende Action-Aufnahmen

and Wil van Gogh―have gone overlooked until now

The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids Landscape Gaunt-faced figures with icicle crownsA new translation of a philosophical and practical advice classic of the ancient world, The Teaching of Ptahhatp, written in Egypt four thousand years ago and still relevant for modern readers today. Noted author and Egyptologist Bill Manley renders into approachable modern English for the first time the oldest surviving statement of philosophy from the ancient world: the thirty seven teachings and twelve conclusions of The Teaching of Ptahhatp,