Egypt

Autobiography of Ahmose-Pennekhbet

A career soldier who, by his own account, held the infant princess Neferura, daughter of the reigning Hatshepsut, in his arms as a nursling, and who served five kings in succession, turns sheer longevity in royal favor into the proof that his life was well spent.

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