How Old is the Westcar Papyrus?
1570-1069 BCE) works. Egyptologist William Kelly Simpson claims that the work “appears to belong to Dynasty 12” (13). This would place it, appropriately, squarely in the greatest dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. Egyptologist Verena Lepper also places the piece in the Middle Kingdom but dates it to the 13th Dynasty. When was papyrus westcar written?…