Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus.jpg
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Rhind Mathematical Papyrus : detail (recto, left part of the first section British Museum Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, EA10057 ) Acquired by the Scottish lawyer A.H. Rhind during his sojourn in Thebes in the 1850s. length: 295.5 cm, width: 32 cm (whole section EA10057) A second section is kept in the British Museum (EA 10058 length: 199.5 cm, same width) Fragments of a small intermediate section (18 cm length) are kept in the Brooklyn Museum |
| Date | during 1650 b.C. (sources: sapere.it ( archivo ), britannica.com ( archive - Encyclopædia Britannica )) |
| Source | Ahmes (scribe) , http://www.archaeowiki.org/Image:Rhind_Mathematical_Papyrus.jpg ( https://www.britishmuseum.org/ , British Museum ) |
| Author | unknown ( c. 2000 B.C ) |
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