Hello and welcome to Symposium 54.

Today I'm joined by Josh and Bo.

And we're going to talk about ancient Egyptian wisdom.

We are going to talk about the maxims or teachings of Tahoe-Tep.

You can find it in several version.

This version says, the oldest book in the world.

You can find it also in this collection of essays. There are many versions of the text.

Is it the oldest book in the world? I think that it was considered to be but obviously

there is a lot of scholarly debate with respect to when it is supposed to date from.

So for instance, Tahotep was supposed to be a sort of high-ranking official of Faroe Assessie and I think that was about 22,350 BC, but a lot of people have said that the text is later

and they are putting down the maxims of that high-ranking official.

In ancient Egyptian, I think the office was called Jati.

A lot of people right now if you search on on Google or Wikipedia they call

Ptojepa Vizier. I don't know to what extent this is correct because I think that this is a more of a Muslim term

But I'm just saying it out in the open. There's different names for the same Pharaoh sometimes.

I thought it was like Dijicare,

probably butchering the pronunciation of that,

but yeah, so the Fifth Dynasty. Yes yes so just to make clear it's something like the

23rd century BC not 20,000 but just 2,000 odd B.

But the fifth dynasty is really early.

I mean, the Great Pyramids has already been built,

but the Great Pyramids of Gies are,

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