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- Everybody is impressed and appreciative in front of the vastness of these sites, that our predecessors from ancient Egypt let us,

- but inscriptions on the walls of these sites and papyrus manuscripts offer us even more.

- Who was that ancient Egyptian man, how did he live, how did he think and how did he consider life and what is after?

- They allow us to reconstitute the whole life in ancient Egypt, its works, its wars, its chants, its artistic, literary and philosophical creations.

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- The influence of ancient Egyptian literature on world literature

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- Story of the sailor and the island of wonders is one of the oldest models of fiction from ancient Egypt.

- Its events, characters and elements revolve around several themes. They are specifically: the sailor, the shipwreck,

- the isolated island, the god of the island, the treasure, the fictional adventures, ending with a safe return to the country, and the mysterious disappearance of the island under the sea.

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- This story dates back to the Middle Kingdom, between 2022 BC and 1650 BC.

- This period saw the emergence of a large number of Egyptian writers and intellectuals who fortunately left us works revealing the greatness of their culture

- and their erudition in the fields of wisdom, philosophy, ethics, or the fields of literary fiction, drama, poetry and music.

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- Historians and scholars of comparative literature see in the structure, the literary construction and the general idea of this fiction

- an inspiration for many famous international writers who have adopted this literary and fictional material from ancient Egypt.

- Its direct influence appears in some of the most famous novelists in the world, both in the classical and romantic fiction.

- These novels tell the adventures of treasure hunters and heroes that live on isolated islands. One example is the novel “Treasure Island”

- of the famous British writer Robert Lewis Stevenson, who narrates the adventures of the hero Jim Hopkins after the discovery of a map

- of a buried treasure on an isolated island, and the novel “The Count of Monte Cristo” of the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas, in which the hero Edmond Dantes

- survive the most awful horrors and began an exciting adventure after becoming aware of the existence of a hidden treasure on the isolated island of Monte Cristo,

- that he finds before returning safely to his country. The strangeness lies in the name of the boat on which he sails: “The Pharaoh”.

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- Some critics and scholars of comparative literature say that among novels that have been influenced by the ideas and contents of the ancient Egyptian fiction

- there is "The self-taught philosopher," written in the 12th century by Arab-Andalusian philosopher and writer Abu Baker Ibn Tofail.

- It is a famous philosophical novel that tells the story of a man who lived on a desert island

- since his childhood and manages to develop philosophical proofs for God’s existence.

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- Finally, some scholars say that the legend of Atlantis, engulfed by the ocean,

- was somehow influenced by the disappearance of the island of wonders in the ancient Egyptian novel.

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