The Egyptian Museum, on Thursday, for the first time, introduced parts of the "King Khufu Papyrus" found in the Wadi Al-Jarf Port, one of the oldest and oldest Egyptian ports.
Al-Jarf valley is located about 24 km south of Zafarana ?? In the Red Sea Governorate, and has been operating a joint Egyptian-French mission since 2011.
The mission discovered the effects of a port that is the oldest in the history of international maritime navigation.
In 2013, the mission found a group of papyrus buried between a number of stone blocks, and these papyrus revealed the nature of work at the port, and uses in the era of King Khufu, and the workers.
And confirms that Wadi Al-Jarf was used during the reign of King Khufu, and that the team working on this site is the same who participated in the construction of the Great Pyramid.
Egyptian Antiquities Minister Khalid Al-Anani said at a press conference held in the Egyptian Museum that these papyri are "the oldest in the history of Egyptian writing so far discovered."
He added that it is the oldest of the papyrus of the mountains, which dates back to the end of the fourth family and the baritories of Abu Sir, which dates back to the end of the fifth family.
According to Anani, these papyrus were "kept in a box that no one has seen since its discovery in 2013, but we have seen that its rightful place is to be placed in the entrance to the Egyptian Museum."
The majority of these papyrus dates back to the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King Khufu, and describes how the central administration was organized during that reign of the Great Pyramid.
One of the most important papyrus discovered is a papyrus containing the diary of Inspector Marer, a senior official, responsible for a crew of perhaps 40 men.
Through this text, researchers were able to identify three months of his career, adding new information about the lives of employees in the fourth family age.
During the conference, Sabah Abdel Razek, the undersecretary of the Egyptian Museum of Archaeological Affairs, said that most of the discovered papyrus "show the distribution of daily rations for foods that came from many areas in the Nile Delta."
She added that one of the most important papyrus is also one that clearly shows in the Hieroglyphic line, the abbreviation of cattle census number 13 under King Khufu.
This census was conducted once every two years, which means that the rule of this king extended about 26 years, which was not known before, according to Under Secretary of the Ministry of Culture.

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