Recently I've been very interested in ancient Egypt and

>>8892323
Just read some overviews of the mythology (taking everything that's said with a grain of salt) then read the primary texts. For the funerary texts- Pyramid, Coffin, Book of the Dead- be sure to get Faulkner's translations, not the really outdated ones of Budge.

Lubicz & Naydler

>>8892331
Thanks for the heads up.
It has seemed so far that literature of Egypt isn't as large or reffered-to of a bibliography compared to the other Mediterranean civilizations

>>8892356
True.

>>8892323

It's /extremely/ dry (and not normally up /lit/'s street), but if you're serious about engaging with an ancient Egyptian text, you might try the Rhind papyrus, a mathematical document.

A few months ago, I uploaded a modern translation of the Papyrus' mathematical content to wiki.

A study of the document does make a few cultural things clear, however:

The ancient egyptians understood that a year consists of 365 days, and for them, a month was always exactly thirty days, while the last five days were simply "floating time" not corresponding to any one month. I think we could do with a return to a scheme similar to this.

"Horus Eye" fractions feature in the work, being the fractions 1/2, 1/4, ... through (IIRC) 1/64.

They actually did apply a rudimentary form of trigonometry to their pyramids n shiet.

Educated, elite Ancient Egyptians were competent with manipulating fractions, which is more than can be said of many people today.