Ancient Origins
Ancient Origins seeks to uncover, what we believe, is one of the most important pieces of knowledge we can acquire as human beings — our beginnings.
Translation of 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Will Reveals Family Disputes Similar to Today
“As for me, I am a free woman of the land of Pharaoh. I brought up these eight servants of yours and gave them a household — everything as is customarily done for those of their standing. But, look, I am grown old and, look, they do not care for me in turn”. These are the words of a woman who lived in Egypt 3,000-years-ago, her last wishes recorded in a will which reveals that problems of today are not so different to those experienced by ancient people millennia ago.
