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Before Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato, there was a grouchy farmer poet whose Works and Days continues to fascinate us.

Ancient Egypt produced a great deal of proverbs and wisdom literature. Some of it even slipped into the bible. But how wise is wisdom literature?

We know about Ancient Egypt’s pyramids, temples, and sarcophagi. What about its folktales and stories, like “The Shipwrecked Sailor” and “The Eloquent Peasant?”

In the 3,500 year old Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, we can find the roots of the world’s religions.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed 3,000-5,000 years ago, and first translated in the 1860s and 70s, was one of the greatest literary discoveries of all time.

The Enuma Elish and the Atrahasis, in circulation 3,800 years ago, were Mesopotamia’s creation and flood epics, making them 1,000 years older than Genesis.

For thousands of years, cuneiform was the means of transmitting information through space and time in the Ancient Near East. Then, something happened.