The era of the New Kingdom, apart from an imperial period of greatness and rise, was also a time of numerous innovations that affected various aspects of ancient Egyptian culture. One of these phenomena is the flowering of epistolography. Personal and administrative correspondence with accessible to all literate means become not just a means of exchanging information, but also a real tool for self-expression - in a way of expressing ideas, feelings, views.
The present monograph is dedicated to this particular part of ancient Egyptian literature. It contains numerous samples of letters from the XVIII to XX dynasties, presented not only in translation but also in hieratic facsimile and hieroglyphic text.