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  • The Step Pyramid of king Netjerkhet Djoser at Sakkara, built near modern Cairo about 4,700 years ago. Metjen must have watched this complex of buildings being built and he was eventually buried nearby, at a site off to the right of the pyramid itself in this view. (Photograph © Bill Manley)
    Blogs | Scotland

    Metjen, the earliest known writer

    ByWilliam Peter Manley 4 August 202215 November 2022

    In August’s Society of Authors in Scotland blog, Bill Manley takes us back over four thousand years to meet Metjen, the earliest known writer.

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