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The Wilbour Papyrus, named after the New York journalist who acquired it, Charles Edwin Wilbour, is the largest known non-funerary papyrus from Ancient

Charles Edwin Wilbour (March 17, 1833 – December 17, 1896) was an American journalist and Egyptologist. Wilbour is noted as one of the discoverers of

the country from what are presumed to be Libyan raiding parties. The Wilbour Papyrus is thought to date from Ramesses V's reign. The document reveals that

The Brooklyn Papyrus (47.218.48 and 47.218.85, also known as the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus) is a medical papyrus dating from ancient Egypt and is one of

Charles Edwin Wilbour in Egypt between 1881 and 1896. The document probably comes from Thebes. After the death of Wilbour, the papyrus was given to the

workers, let alone the general populace, during this troubled time. The Wilbour Papyrus, believed to date to Year 4 of Ramesses V's reign, was a major land

economic issues. Ramesses V 20th Dynasty Short reign, known from the Wilbour Papyrus. Ramesses VI 20th Dynasty Faced challenges in maintaining Egypt’s stability

was thus a suitable cult center for the god Seth. According to the Wilbour Papyrus, by Dynasty XIX there existed two land-owning temple institutions within

a university professor and Egyptologist, known for her work on the Wilbour Papyrus, land tenure in the Ramesside Period, and the social and economic history

the Fayyum and quite near to the modern site of Deshasheh. Here, as Papyrus Wilbour notes in its wealth of taxation records and land assessments, the temple