Egypt

Autobiography of Harkhuf

A provincial governor's four trading expeditions to the land of Yam prove that loyal service on Egypt's frontier, capped by delivering a dancing pygmy for the boy-king Pepi II's amusement, earns a courtier eternal royal favor recorded in stone.

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